How to search multiple files having certain numbers
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No need for anything fancy here. The \ is an escape character so the | is interpreted correctly and not as a pipe.
Pretty sure -E already covers it so you do not have to escape anything.
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Originally Posted by Haba2015
Without -o, I only got back original files. Notting was done on them.
Still not quite following. You are aware that grep does not change the contents of a file?
Maybe if we could simplify this a little. If we just grab one file that has data in it and at least one of the numbers you are looking for, does the grep then provide output?
Are you able to provide one of the files of data? Dummy up any information you think is sensitive.
Also, are the files you are working on coming from Windows? If so, try running dos2unix on them prior to using the grep and see if that makes a difference?
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