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How do I use grep to find all the zip files in a directory?

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David Faux

I have a directory with over 1000 files, and a few of them are .zip files, and I want to turn them all into .tgz files.

I want to use grep to make a list of file names. I have tried "grep *.zip" to no avail. Reading the man pages, I thought that * was a universal selector. Why is this not working?

Thank you.

Zoke

You should really use find instead.

find <dir> -iname \*.zip

Example: to search for all .zip files in current directory and all sub-directories try this:

find . -iname \*.zip

This will list all files ending with .zip regarding of case. If you only want the ones with lower-case change -iname to -name

The command grep searches for stings in files, not for files. You can use it with find to list all your .zip files like this

find . |grep -e "\.zip$"

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