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I'm looking to grep multiple files with multiple values. For example: grep -f filename.txt /home/* -R
(filename.txt contains multiple values)

But, I need the know which file contained which value.
For example: /home/blah.txt contains value1, /home/aaa.txt contains value2, etc.

any suggestions?

rudimeier
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Daniel Gur
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You can do this using some of the flags provided by grep.

You can try the following command :

grep -R -f filename.txt /home/* will search any pattern inside your filename.txt file and match it recursively against all files inside your home folder. You'll get an output like this :

#here my filename contains the entries bash and Bingo
$grep -R -f filename.txt /home/*
/home/user/.bash_history:vi .bashrc
/home/user/.bash_history:vi .bashrc
/home/user/.bash_history:awk -v RS=END_WORD '/Bingo1/ && /Bingo2/' test2.txt | grep -o 'Pokeman.*'

grep will output the file name and the full line containing your pattern.

If you only want to display the pattern that was found, try the following command :

#here the -o flag only displays the matched values, and -n adds the line number
$grep -R -o -n -f test /home/*
/home/user/.bash_history:128:bash
/home/user/.bash_history:156:bash
/home/user/.bash_history:193:Bingo
Aserre
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This should work for your situation:

grep -HRnF '<pattern>' . --include "<file_name>"

So to search for the word 'test' in all file ending with .txt use something like:

grep -HRnF 'test' . --include "*.txt"
Runcy Oommen
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GNU grep has option -o:

-o, --only-matching

Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with each such part on a separate output line.

So this should do what you want

grep -f filename.txt -R -H -o /home/*

Note I've also added -H (-with-filename) to print the filename always.

rudimeier
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