Thursday, August 31, 2006

For grep's sake

Just now, I needed to find a line with the phrase 'valid' in it. Unfortunatly, there were thousands of such lines. I narrowed down the list by embedding a one greps output in another. The file list to search is constructed by a grep statement that searches for shell scripts aka "\#\!/bin". I use this file sublist to search for another word like so:

grep "valid" `grep -rIl "\#\!/bin" *`

what fun!

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