A cool script to search within a hell of TXT files

guarriman · 12-07-2004, 06:23 AM

Hi.

I've got 1000s of TXT files within a directory, and I would like to
find
a cool script to search within it.

I want to search files which content 'Foo' but not 'John', and only
within the '20041129' subdirectory.

I don't know if I must develop my own script or it already exists.

BTW, can I integrate this script into a Apache module?

Thank you very much.

ToniT · 12-07-2004, 06:39 AM

grep -r foo 20041129/ | grep -v john

To integrate this into apache, make script containing lines:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo -e 'Content-Type: text/plain\n\n'
grep -r foo 20041129/ | grep -v john

hamish · 12-07-2004, 06:39 AM

Hey

You could just grep through it to find which files contain "foo", but not "John". If you cat the result to a text file which will show you the path.

Code:

$ echo "$(grep -Eir Foo /home/guarriman/20041129/* |  grep -Eirv John)" > temp_file

This will put all the output in "temp_file" and will show you the path.

You could also find a way just to print the path, but i don't know how to do that atm.

Hope this helps.

hamish

hamish · 12-07-2004, 06:40 AM

lol, I see I was too late.

H

hamish · 12-07-2004, 06:41 AM

ToniT,

how do you integrate that code into apache? Is it possible to create a web page whereby someone clicks a "show me all file containing Foo" link, and that code is executed.

That seems quite insecure, though.

Hamish

ToniT · 12-08-2004, 12:17 AM

Hamish:
By saving that file to eg. foo.cgi and enabling cgi support from apache.

hamish · 12-08-2004, 03:48 AM

and then do you have a link which calls the foo.cgi file?
H

ToniT · 12-08-2004, 07:21 AM

test it.