Re: Parse grep result

[loris]

It is not entirely clear to me what your problem is. If you are trying find arbitrary files within the file system, then you could just call

find / -name "*<search term>*

in your program (the find|xargs grep idiom is usually used when your grep does not have an option for recursion, as may well be the case on Solaris). This however will take a while if you have a large file system. If you have the locate command, use this - it will be much quicker.

BTW, if you do want to parse paths, use File::Basename.

loris

[vsailas]

Sorry for being brief...
I was looking to list contents(files) of my folders including subdirectories which have the search term in them.
Another query will File::Basename. more quick than 'find | xargs grep, ?

[loris]

File::Basename is just for parsing paths, not for searching for files in the file system.

loris