search for an occurence of two text in a list of files

[Caldas]

I'm trying to find files in the current directory that have the occurence of '<IWM_Datasource>NOUID</IWM_Datasource>' AND '<IWM_HasMetaData>true</IWM_HasMetaData>'.

I was able to find just the first text like this:
find . -name '*Base*xml' -type f -exec egrep -l ^.*'<IWM_Datasource>NOUID</IWM_Datasource>'$ {} /dev/null \;

But when I try to add the second text I don't seem to get it right, can any1 help?

Regards,

[ghostdog74]

I'm trying to find files in the current directory that have the occurence of '<IWM_Datasource>NOUID</IWM_Datasource>' AND '<IWM_HasMetaData>true</IWM_HasMetaData>'.

I was able to find just the first text like this:
find . -name '*Base*xml' -type f -exec egrep -l ^.*'<IWM_Datasource>NOUID</IWM_Datasource>'$ {} /dev/null \;

But when I try to add the second text I don't seem to get it right, can any1 help?

Regards,

awk '/IWM_Datasource/ && /IWM_HasMetaData/ { print "Found in " FILENAME}'  *Base*xml
 

[Caldas]

awk '/IWM_Datasource/ && /IWM_HasMetaData/ { print "Found in " FILENAME}'  *Base*xml
 

Thx for the code.

I tried it and got no hits, but when I change the && operator to || then it returns the file twice as if it was searching twice, once for each part of the condition.

Any ideas why the && wouldn't work? These are not in the same line, but exist in the same file.

Regards,

[ghostdog74]

Thx for the code.

I tried it and got no hits, but when I change the && operator to || then it returns the file twice as if it was searching twice, once for each part of the condition.

Any ideas why the && wouldn't work? These are not in the same line, but exist in the same file.

Regards,

the syntax: /<somepattern> && /<someotherpattern>/ means to search for these 2 patterns together on the same line. I suspect the 2 patterns you mentioned are on different lines, that why you got nothing. what's you actual reqiurement again? do you want to find them on the same line together? or do you want to find these 2 , no matter which line they are in? also post another example of your sample input file.

[pbmods]

You could just modify your regular expression (though I sure hope this isn't the best way to do it):

'(<IWM_Datasource>NOUID<\/IWM_Datasource>)|(<IWM_HasMetaData>true<\/IWM_HasMetaData>)$'