grep first and result to ls command

[Leo The Cat]

Hi

I'd like to combine grep and after that ls

something like that

grep -i "Error" frm*.txt | ls -lrt .......

My result must be all grep files with Error but I want the same display provided by ls -lrt command to have by example date and time of these files !

How to do this small trick !?


Any good idea ?
Bests Regards
Den

[Leo The Cat]

Sorry of course the solution is:

ls -lrt $(grep -il "Error" frm*)

[Steven Schweda · Accepted solution]

> Sorry of course the solution is:
> [...]

Except that "the solution" is, of course,
almost never more than "_a_ solution", and
this proposed solution may fail for very long
file lists. Something like the following
might avoid some problems:

find . -name 'frm*.txt' \
-exec grep -iq 'error' {} \; \
-exec ls -l {} \;


(If "ls -l" output were not so lame, you
might even be able to sort the stuff by
date-time in a reasonable way.)

Some "find" programs have a "-ls" operator,
which would simplify things a bit, too. (The
one supplied with HP-UX seems not to be among
these.)

[Leo The Cat]

Hi Guys

ok. I'm in business now with the command below

1. cd /logs/forms/debug/

2. find . -name 'frm*' -exec grep -iq 'Error' {} \; -exec ls -lrt {} \; >> $OUTPUT_FILE


BUT !!

I'd like to do this without the cd command. The problem is now

find . -name '/logs/forms/debug/frm*' -exec grep -iq 'Error' {} \; -exec ls -lrt {} \; >> $OUTPUT_FILE

doesn't work if I'm not running this from /logs/forms/debug/


The situation is better !!! ....

Bests Regards
Den

[Steven Schweda]

> I'd like to do this without the cd command.

Why do you care? What's the real problem?

[Fredrik.eriksson]

You're going about your find line the wrong way
the "." after find is path to search. -name just tells find what it's looking for.

find /logs/forms/debug/ -name frm* -exec grep -iq 'Error' {} \; -exec ls -lrt {} \; >> $OUTPUT_FILE

This is alot more likely to produce the result you're looking for. But I'm not entirely sure that find will return the full path (eg. /logs/forms/debug/frm1.file). Without the full path this will not work since neither of grep or ls will find the target.

You can fix that by adding the path /logs/forms/debug/ before {}. Only do this is find doesn't give you a full path.

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

[Leo The Cat]

Why I don,t want use the cd commad ? I'd prefer to have no modification on the current active path.

About the idea: use /logs/forms/debug/before {}

Example
find /logs/forms/debug/ -name "frm*" -exec grep -iq 'Error' {} \; -exec ls -lrt /logs/forms/debug/{} \;

doesn't work of course. Probably I don't see want do want do.

Bests Regards
Den

[Steven Schweda]

> Why I don,t want use the cd commad ? I'd
> prefer to have no modification on the
> current active path.

As the old saying goes, there's more than one
way to skin a cat.

bash$ pwd
/ALP$DKA0/sms
bash$ ( cd /tmp ; pwd )
/tmp
bash$ pwd
/ALP$DKA0/sms

"man your_shell", look for "(".

[Leo The Cat]

ok break !

Why before I've used loop. It's because I need to add ### before each output line !

like this:
cd /logs/forms/debug/
ls /logs/forms/debug/frmweb*
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
for file in $(ls $(grep -il "Error" /logs/forms/debug/frmweb*))
do
echo "### " $(ls -l $file) >> $OUTPUT_FILE
done
fi

And Unfortunately I didn't find the solution to do this with find and -exec (something like this)

cd /logs/forms/debug/
find . -name 'frm*' -exec grep -iq 'Error' {} \; -exec ls -lrt {} \; >> $OUTPUT_FILE

Where to manage the ### special string ?

This is my problem, forget the "cd" command problem... it's not a problem here.

Thank you very much
Den

[Steven Schweda]

> It's because I need to add ### before each
> output line !

It certainly was foolish of me not to have
known that.

> Where to manage the ### special string ?

You could write a shell script, and have a
"-exec your_script" clause in your "find"
command.

You could pipe the "find" output into a
sub-shell:

bash$ ls -l
total 2
-rwxr-x--- 1 SMS 40 5 Mar 20 13:48 a.b
-rw-r----- 1 SMS 40 5 Mar 20 13:49 a.c
-rw-r----- 1 SMS 40 5 Mar 20 13:49 a.d
-rwxr-x--- 1 SMS 40 5 Mar 20 2009 b.c
bash$ cat ../fs.sh
#!/bin/sh

find . -name 'a.*' -type f | \
(
while read file ; do
lsl=$( ls -l "$file" )
echo "### ${lsl}"
done
)

bash$ ../fs.sh
### -rwxr-x--- 1 SMS 40 5 Mar 20 13:48 ./a.b
### -rw-r----- 1 SMS 40 5 Mar 20 13:49 ./a.c
### -rw-r----- 1 SMS 40 5 Mar 20 13:49 ./a.d

Many things are possible.