I'm not very experienced in shell scripting, but I'm trying to understand how to grep for a pattern and for each file where there is a match write a file to disk that contains the matched line from grep. For example:
$ grep -E "MY PATTERN" myfile{1,3}
Then write out new files that contain the matching lines:
matches-myfile1
matches-myfile2
matches-myfile3
Is this possible? How can I do this? I'm looking for an answer is bash or zsh.
Bonsi has the right idea, but not the right approach (what should one do with filenames containing spaces or other whitespace characters, for example). Here is a way of doing it in bash:
for file in myfile{1,3}; do
grep -E "MY PATTERN" < "$file" > "matches-$file"
done
If you did need to store the files you should account properly for word splitting, like so:
files=( myfile{1,3} )
for file in "${files[@]}"; do
grep -E "MY PATTERN" < "$file" > "matches-$file"
done
One way using awk:
awk '/MY PATTERN/{print > "matches-"FILENAME;}' myfile{1,3}
i don't think that this is possible however it is possible to build a small script for that
#! /bin/bash
files=(file1 file2 file3)
for i in "${files[@]}"; do grep -E "MY PATTERN" < "$i" > matches-"$i"; done
You can do it like this with GNU find and GNU parallel:
find . -type f -print0 | parallel -0 grep '"MY PATTERN"' '{} > {//}/matches.{/}'
You can make grep output the filename with -H, and then use awk to write to it.
$ grep -H regexp files* | awk -F : '{ file="matches-" $1; sub("^[^:]+:","",$0); print $0 > file; }'
