[SOLVED] grep with multiple word matches in multiple files

Issue

I have tomcat access logs in multiple files. All the files are under the same directory. I am in MacOS.

Like this in one of the files:

POST /context HTTP/1.1 200 266 20 <url>.com
GET /context1 HTTP/1.1 200 266 20 <url>.in
POST /context2 HTTP/1.1 200 266 20 <url>.de

Now I want to grep/search and print the lines which matches with "context" and ".com".

This has to be done over the multiple files in the directory.

I tried this grep "/context" . | grep ".com" but this does not work over a directory.

Solution

If the .com always follows /context, try

grep 'context.*\.com' *

(or a better wildcard if you have other files; maybe try tomcat*.log instead of *?)

If the patterns could be in any order, you could use

grep -E 'context.*\.com|\.com.*context' *

(The -E option switches to a different regex dialect which lets you use | for "or". You could also remove the -E option and use \| but I think this is clumsy and confusing.)

... or switch to Awk.

awk '/context/ && /\.com/' *

Answered By - tripleee

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)