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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Simon Robert wrote:
Hello all I use a rather great application called Alexandria to look after my extensive (vastly inconvenient according to some around here) collection of SF books. It even works with the extremely odd, but $5 on ebay "cuecat" scanner for ISBN codes. Downloads cover and details from Amazon. Worthwile looking up the "cuecat" just for amusement - the dubious distinction as one of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" - fails to solve a problem which never existed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat Anyhow the point of this mail is that although fab Alexandria will not delete entries. (this project moves at glacial speed, but the likelyhood of me learning Ruby and solving this problem before it forks is not great). The book details are held in easy to read database files and I want to be able to track down a file so I can delete it. A grep command like "grep Transition *.yaml" would be great, except as far as I can figure one needs to specify a list of files. Is the a way of using grep which would allow me to do the above? Or a similar command?
Doesn't that just do what you want? Or are you looking to descend directories, etc?
Traditionally: (well, my tradition!)
find . -type f -name \*.yaml -exec grep -l Transition {} \;
Although grep these days has been bloated with it's own directory
recursion and filename globbing, which is utterly pointless IMO when the
tools to do this already existed, but newbie command-line weenies couldn't
be bothered to learn them </rant>, but there you are:
grep -l -r --include='*.yaml' Transition . might work for you too. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html