Is it possible to do a grep with keywords stored in the array.
Here is the possible code snippet... Please correct it
args=("key1" "key2" "key3")
cat file_name |while read line
echo $line | grep -q -w ${args[c]}
done
At the moment, I can search for only one keyword. I would like to search for all the keywords which is stored in args array.
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kiran
args=("key1" "key2" "key3")
pat=$(echo ${args[@]}|tr " " "|")
grep -Eow "$pat" file
Or with the shell
args=("key1" "key2" "key3")
while read -r line
do
for i in ${args[@]}
do
case "$line" in
*"$i"*) echo "found: $line";;
esac
done
done <"file"
You can use some bash expansion magic to prefix each element with -e and pass each element of the array as a separate pattern. This may avoid some precedence issues where your patterns may interact badly with the | operator:
$ grep ${args[@]/#/-e } file_name
The downside to this is that you cannot have any spaces in your patterns because that will split the arguments to grep. You cannot put quotes around the above expansion, otherwise you get "-e pattern" as a single argument to grep.
This is one way:
args=("key1" "key2" "key3")
keys=${args[@]/%/\\|} # result: key1\| key2\| key3\|
keys=${keys// } # result: key1\|key2\|key3\|
grep "${keys}" file_name
Edit:
Based on Pavel Shved's suggestion:
( IFS="|"; keys="${args[*]}"; keys="${keys//|/\\|}"; grep "${keys}" file_name )
The first version as a one-liner:
keys=${args[@]/%/\\|}; keys=${keys// }; grep "${keys}" file_name
Edit2:
Even better than the version using IFS
:
printf -v keys "%s\\|" "${args[@]}"; grep "${keys}" file_name
The command
( IFS="|" ; grep --perl-regexp "${args[*]}" ) <file_name
searches the file for each keyword in an array. It does so by constructing regular expression word1|word2|word3
that matches any word from the alternatives given (in perl mode).
If I there is a way to join array elements into a string, delimiting them with sequence of characters (namely, \|
), it could be done without perl regexp.
perhaps something like this;
cat file_name |while read line
for arg in ${args[@]}
do
echo $line | grep -q -w $arg}
done
done
not tested!
I tend to use process substitution for everything. It's convenient when combined with grep
's -f
option:
Obtain patterns from FILE, one per line.
(Depending on the context, you might even want to combine that with -x
or -w
for awesome effects.)
So:
#! /usr/bin/env bash
t=(8 12 24)
seq 30 | grep -f <(printf '%s\n' "${t[@]}")
and I get:
8
12
18
24
28
I basically write a pseudo-file with one item of the array per line, and then tell grep
to use each of these lines as a pattern.