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schwdk
schwdk

Reputation: 153

grep: search once for different pattern and output to several files

Is it possible to tell grep to use different output files for every type of matching search string?

I need to search all *.log recursively to find all "[ERROR]", "[WARN]" and "[ASSERT]". But I would like to have it separated in different output files. One output file for each search string. (without calling grep several times!)

searching already works: (called from gmake)

grep -nHr --include=*.log -e '\[ERROR\]' -e '\[WARN\]' -e '\[ASSERT\]' $(root_path) > $(root_path)/result.txt

But due to performance I do not want to call grep several times:

grep -nHr --include=*.log -e '\[ERROR\]' $(root_path) > $(root_path)/result_[ERROR].txt

grep -nHr --include=*.log -e '\[WARN\]' $(root_path) > $(root_path)/result_[WARN].txt

Is it possible to have it somehow like:

grep -nHr --include=*.log -e {'PATTERN1' | 'PATTERN2' | 'PATTERN3'} $(root_path) > $(root_path)/result{'PATTERN1'|'PATTERN2'|'PATTERN3'}.txt

Upvotes: 1

Views: 208

Answers (2)

sjsam
sjsam

Reputation: 21965

 sed -n '{
/\[ERROR\]/w errorlog
/\[WARN\]/w warnlog
/\[ASSERT\]/w assertlog
}' $(  find /your/path/here -type f -name "*.log" )

may work for you.

Upvotes: 1

shellter
shellter

Reputation: 37278

To read thru the file in 1 pass, and write to multiple outFiles, I would use awk

  awk '/^\[Error\]/ {print FILENAME ":" NR ":" $0 > "errorFile.txt" }
       /^\[Warn\]/ {print FILENAME ":" NR ":" $0 > "warnFile.txt" }
       /Assert/ {print FILENAME ":" NR ":" $0 > "assertFile.txt" }'  logFile

You can gain a minor increase in speed, if you know for certain that the Error/Warn/Assert tokens are always the first on the line of interest and use the beginning-of-line reg-exp char (^), ie.

/^Error/ {print $0 > "errorFile.txt"

Upvotes: 2

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