Hi

I have to search in files and I think that the command "find" shuld be nice. I has tried this:

find . -name *.doc -exec antiword {} \; | grep "a|b|c"

and result of this would be
a
b
c

but I will alsol have which file has the information ? What do I have wrong ??'

// Ronny

Try:

Code:

egrep "a|b|c" *.doc

I wrote the command wrong, it shuld be like this

find . -name "*.doc" -exec antiword {} \; | grep "a|b|c"

The answer you have doesnt make any diffrent. If you can see I have a pipe before grep so it takes the input to the grep command. Any other solution in this problem ????

1) You want grep to look for the string 'a|b|c'? or 'a' or 'b' or 'c'?

2) You want to know in which file it found it?

You cannot know the source file unless the "antiword" script (program) returns it.


-- OR --
write an intermediate script like this:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# MyWord.ksh - Script to call 'antiword'
ret="`antiword $1`"
[ ! -z $ret ] && echo "$1:$ret"
exit

and call like this:

Code:

find . -name *.doc -exec MyWord {} \; | grep "a|b|c" | tr "|" "\n"