parsing files

[Foreman, Tim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Buehler [mailto:steve at ibapp.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 10:51 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: parsing files
> 
> 
> 	Running RedHat 7.3, 8, 9, ES 3 & ES 4.  Does anybody know of a 
> script or just a command line command that I can use to parse a bunch 
> of files for @aol.com and report to me just the "pwd" of the file and 
> the lines in them that contain @aol.com
> 	I think grep or egrep can do this, but for some reason, 
> I cannot get 
> the correct syntax down.  It needs to do something like:
> grep /home/virtual/*/etc/aliases
> 	Ideally, I would want what the asterisks instead of the 
> "pwd" to the 
> file since that is the part that will tell me what domain it is 
> on.  So the report could be something like this:
> 
> #root>grep /home/virtual/*/etc/aliases
> domain1.com
> localname name at aol.com
> localname2 name2 at aol.com
> 
> domain9.net
> localname3 name3 at aol.com
> localname4 name4 at aol.com
> 
> Thanks In Advance
> Steve


The simplest answer is probably to build a quick FOR loop like this:

---- START ----
#!/bin/sh

for I in `ls /home/virtual/*/etc/aliases`
do
  echo $I
  grep "@aol.com" $I
done

---- END ----

That should do it.

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