How put every files result by a grep into a zip file-CodePudding

I'm searching every txt files that contains string1 and string2

grep -rnE --include='*.txt' 'string1|string2'

Now I want to put all those files into a zip file.

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

You can use -l option in grep to output only filename and pipe it to xargs to create zip for each found fine:

grep --null -rlE --include='*.txt' 'string1|string2' |
xargs -0 -I {} zip '{}'.zip '{}'

Note use of --null option with -0 in xargs to address filenames with whitespaces, special characters.

CodePudding user response：

since you wanted files that contain both string1 and string2

$ files=""; for i in *.txt; do if  grep -q string1 $i &&  grep -q string2 $i; then files="$files $i"; fi; done
$ zip files.zip ${files}

cleaner version

files=""; 
for i in *.txt; 
  do 
    if  grep -q string1 $i &&  grep -q string2 $i; then 
      files="$files $i"; 
    fi; 
  done
zip files.zip ${files}