giving search-string(s) from a file to linux "find" command

Fond_of_Opensource · 08-07-2006, 01:23 AM

I want to use the Linux command find to find pattern from a file. (i.e. the search criteria/pattern string(s) are stored in file and the file's content is given as input to the find command. The file will contain the search strings. How to perform this task using find command???

titopoquito · 08-07-2006, 05:03 AM

I don't know if I understand you exactly. But what I understand would differ depending on the count of patterns (lines) in the file you use for the pattern(s).
I will show it with a simple search for the pattern(s) as filename in the actual folder.

One argument/line:

Code:

find . -name "`cat name-of-pattern-file`"

Severeal arguments in several lines:

Code:

cat name-of-pattern-file | while read pattern; do find . -name "$pattern"; done

skuletm · 02-02-2009, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fond_of_Opensource

I want to use the Linux command find to find pattern from a file. (i.e. the search criteria/pattern string(s) are stored in file and the file's content is given as input to the find command. The file will contain the search strings. How to perform this task using find command???

I believe you need to simply find a certain string within some file?
if so, you can use the following:
find . | xargs grep 'string'

Cheers!

chrism01 · 02-02-2009, 07:14 PM

recursive grep ?

Code:

for pattern in `cat strings.dat`
do
    grep -r $pattern * >> found.txt
done