Re: Searching multiple IFS files

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps a silly question, but... why not simply do this:

    grep -l string *.txt

That'll search all files that match the pattern *.txt without any need 
to code a loop.   The -l switch means to print the filename only and not 
list the lines of the file that match.


John McKee wrote:
> I know this has been discussed at some point.  Not sure as to how it was
> resolved.
>
> I am needing to locate files in an IFS directory that contain a given string.
>
> Using qp2term, I entered this:
>
> cd to appropriate directory
>
> for i in `ls *.txt`
> do
> cat $i |grep string && echo $i
> done
>
>
> Eight file names were displayed.  I have searched one named file and those
> around it, but cannot find the string that was (if I did it right) that was
> located.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Since echo command is only performed when grep is successful, qhy is the
> value presented not apparently a file that contains the string located by grep?
>
> 2) Any way that I can disable the huge quantity of job logs produced by the
> above commands?  Message logging is currently set to 4 0 *NOLIST and *NO
>
> Thanks!