Re: Slightly OT: How to grep for two different things in a file
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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:41:13 UTC
Maybe awk could help here awk '/pattern1/ {next} /pattern2/ {print FILENAME}' somefile.txt to translate this: if pattern1 is found, we jump to find the 'next' pattern in the file. If that is found as well, we print the FILENAME. You can use this on all files using a bit of shell kungfu: for f in *; do awk '<whatever here>' "$f"; done -- Jaskaran Veer Singh On Wed Sep 7, 2022 at 6:00 PM EDT, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > 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