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Asked: 2021-11-20 07:41:09 +0800 CST

Zip all files returned from "grep-ril" command

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I'm using grep -ril to be able to see all files that contain a certain string:

[user@machine]$ grep -ril "test string"
file1.log
file2.log
file3.log
file4.log
...

I then would like to zip all of the files that have been returned by that command. Is this possible?

I've tried things such as grep -ril myPattern | zip files.zip and grep -ril myPattern | zip > files.zip but nothing has worked so far.

Is there a workaround to this?

Thank you.

bash grep zip

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use the zip command line switch -@ to have zip take the list of input files from standard input instead of from the command line. For example,

    grep -ril "test string" | zip name-of-new-zip-file -@
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  2. You can try the command on this way:

    zip zipfile.zip `grep -ril "test string"`
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