Re: Searching inside files in a script

[Dennis Williamson]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 2:20 PM Khan Smith <khansmith@mail.com> wrote:

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> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 6:22 PM
> *From:* "Dennis Williamson" <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com>
> *To:* "Khan Smith" <khansmith@mail.com>
> *Cc:* "Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev" <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>, "help-bash" <
> help-bash@gnu.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Searching inside files in a script
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 1:14 PM Khan Smith <khansmith@mail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 3:46 PM
> > From: "Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev" <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> > To: "Khan Smith" <khansmith@mail.com>
> > Cc: "help-bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
> > Subject: Re: Searching inside files in a script
> > grep -r 'pattern' dir
> > possibly -E or -P or -F
> > -r for recursive into dirs
> >
> >
> >
> > I am trying to time the execution of grep using
> >
> > tim=${EPOCHREALTIME//[![:digit:]]/.}
> >
> > But tim is not returning anything
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 17:38 Khan Smith <[1]khansmith@mail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am getting a number of error messages related to functionality
> > I
> > source to. I would like to have a function I can run to search a
> > text
> > pattern on specific directories or files. What can I do?
> > If I select a directory, I want to search inside the files in
> > that
> > directory.
> >
> > References
> >
> > 1. mailto:khansmith@mail.com
>
>
> Instead of doing it yourself just do
>
> time grep...
>
> Does the "time grep..." command also run grep?  For the timing part, how
> would I pass the result
> to a variable for printing?
>
>
>

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/032

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