Slightly OT: How to grep for two different things in a file
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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:00:36 UTC
I have 2 patterns I need to find in a given set of files. A file only matches if it contains *BOTH* patterns but not in any given relationship as to where they are in the file. In the past I have used piped greps when both patterns are on the same line but in my current case they are almost certainly not on the same line. For example my two patterns are "tid" (String variable name) and "/tmp" [String literal] (i.e. the full string is the concatenation of the two patterns I would do: grep -Ri tid src/java|grep -i /tmp But since /tmp is in a symbolic constant defined elsewhere (in a different Java file) I need to find programmatically either the name of the constant (has different names in different classes) and then do the piped grep above with it or I need to look for the two patterns separately and say a file is only accepted if it has both. P.S. The reason for this is I am attempting to audit my code base to see what classes leave behind orphaned temp files. -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org