On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, James Ferree wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to write a script that will look in a > file for a list of text strings to search for like > > req_aaaa > req_bbb > req_ccc > > and search all the files in a subdirectory and below > for the string, if it is found, then it prints out the > the original string followed by the file name for each > instance where it is found. If it gets through all > the files and finds none, the it prints out the > original string and the Words NOT FOUND.
Are you looking a perl solution or would shell solution suffice If so 'man find' and 'man grep' should give you the info. For a perl solution 1) For traversing sub-directories perldoc File::Find #File::Find comes with the standard distribution 2) File I/O perldoc perlopentut 3) Regular Expressions perldoc perlretut perldoc perlre > > Thanks for any help, > Jim > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
