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gorillamoe/grep-in-rev-named-files.sh

Created January 10, 2014 12:46
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Grep in files that are "revisioned" by filename like: test.1.xml, test.2.xml, test.3.xml. This script will only grep in the latest (highest number) file. It searches trough all subdirs too.
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grep-in-rev-named-files.sh
find . -name \*.xml -type f -print | cut -c3- | sort -k2 -t. -n -r | awk 'BEGIN{FS="."} a[$1] {next} {a[$1]=1} 1' | xargs grep mooo
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