I want to get the name of files in current directory such that the first line of the file is equal to myWord
. I wanted to combine find . -type f
comman
You can use find
with awk
:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec awk '/myWord/{print FILENAME} {nextfile}' {} +
awk command will search first line of each file for the word myWord
then it prints that filename.
Or using gnu sed
:
find . -type f -exec sed '/myWord/F;Q' {} \;
Many thanks to @chepner and @123 for extremely helpful comments below this answer.