HI All

Bit of info about me, first, i am totally new to unix and linux, been brought up in a windows world i know i should explore. Well here i am, where windows cannot help me ive turned to linux!

Basically MS are rolling out a patch that will affect how IE handles ActiveX which will be a nuisance for me as i work with a learning management system that contains many web files that call activex files. Currently I would have to manually review 000's of files to see if files are calling activex objects etc..

I've been guided to use Cygwin and run a bash script using grep to locate the srings within files, but am struggling.

In an ideal world, i would like to run a script that runs through files/directories and lists file names, line numbers for files that contain some words, the files do not need all the words, but any word result in a listing.

So far ive found this:

find .-name "*.*" -exec grep -H -n applet {} \; outputfile.txt

I have no idea how i can get it to search for multiple words without having to run the above multiple times.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, potentially i will lose a lot of content because of this new update!

try:

find .-name "*.*" -exec egrep -H -n "applet|this|that|other" {} \; outputfile.txt

egrep allows for multiple patterns separated by
"pattern1|pattern2|patternn"

cheers

Careful! There needs to be a space between the period and the dash: That period means "the current directory".

And the switch, -name "*.*", doesn't do much for you. It only guarantees you will skip files that don't have a period in their name. Aren't all the files .html or .asp? Then you could do this. Using -iname instead of -name means case insensitive--that's probably a good idea on Windows. What's "output.txt" doing out there? I think that was intended to collect all the output, but you are missing a redirection operator: >. Let me add two tweaks (space and '>') to what you've been given: