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Raja G
Raja G

Reputation: 6653

grep search recursive not working

I am trying to find a string across all log files and list those filenames.

And these log files are in sub-directories and these files are compressed with gz so using zgrep.

I am using below command 

zgrep -lFR --include=Std_20170101*  "ReceiveData: Receive call failed" /logs/nas/App02/201612* >> zfileslist

I am using --include=Std_20170101* are the files names in all subdirectories after App02 location . so to save time using above context.

I am sure that we have entries in those dates log files but some how its not showing them.

Please help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 511

Answers (2)

codeforester
codeforester

Reputation: 43039

Use --include-dir option since --include is restricted to only files:

zgrep -lFR --include-dir="Std_20170101*" "ReceiveData: Receive call failed" /logs/nas/App02/201612* >> zfileslist

From grep man page:

**--include**
  If specified, only files matching the given filename pattern are searched.
  Note that --exclude patterns take priority over --include patterns.  
  Patterns are matched to the full path specified, not only to the filename component.

**--include-dir**
  If -R is specified, only directories matching the given filename pattern are searched.
  Note that --exclude-dir patterns take priority over --include-dir patterns.

Upvotes: 1

Srihari Karanth
Srihari Karanth

Reputation: 2167

If you want to give pattern then use find with -exec option and run grep on the files returned.

find ./ -name "*.dat" -exec grep "find pattern" {} \;

Upvotes: 0

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