grep 2 items in a file
 

Hi all.

I have collection my routers configuration through rancid. Now i want to do the following,

Display all the files that contain the following words

C1841 AND HWIC-4ESW

I want to display all the files that contains both these words.

Is it possible using grep ?

Hi,

Would this helps:

grep "C1841" * | grep -m1 "HWIC-4ESW"

The -m1 is there to stop searching if one match is found (this will prevent the printing of the same filename if the match occurs more then once).

Hope this helps.

Dear Sir,

the output of grep 'C1841' * doesnt give any line that contains HWIC-4ESW also. So its not working.

I read about agrep, i have installed it, but its and (;) operator is not working !

Kindly guide me pls

Hi,
I did assume that both words are on the same line, if that is not the case, try this:

grep -lm1 "HWIC-4ESW" $(grep -lm1 "C1841" *)

Hope this helps.

Maybe awk may be able to help too:
Not tested, but you get the idea.

Hi,
Tested: If both words are on the same line, the above does not work, otherwise it will.

try

egrep 'C1841|HWIC-4ESW' filename

@geovg: That will find C1841 or HWIC-4ESW, not C1841 and HWIC-4ESW :)

Well I will go back to my original line :)

And we have another winner ;)

I might even like this one better then mine: Just one command, although probably a bit more complicated for the novice.

I will check the awk command and will let you guys know about it. But what about agrep ? i have read that following can do

agrep 'C1841;HWIC-4ESW' filename

But i have been trying that with no success. Has anyone tried it ?

And really thank you for answering. I really owe you guys a lot

agrep ... never heard of it before, but just googled it and there it was :doh: have no idea how to use it though :(

Hi,

I also never heard of agrep before you brought it up, so cannot help you with that one....
You're welcome :)

That will match lines with both C1814 and HWIC-4ESW on them, like druuna's first solution. You may be able to get what you want via creative use of the -d (delimiter) option: i.e. put as a delimiter something that doesn't show up in the file so it matches the entire file at once.


@grail: that would match a file that has C1841 (or HWIC-4ESW) twice, how about: