Re: Searching inside files in a script

[Dennis Williamson]

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
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>    I am trying to time the execution of grep using
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>    tim=${EPOCHREALTIME//[![:digit:]]/.}
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>    But tim is not returning anything
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>    On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 17:38 Khan Smith <[1]khansmith@mail.com> wrote:
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>         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.
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> References
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>    1. mailto:khansmith@mail.com


Instead of doing it yourself just do

time grep...

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