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Asked: 2026-05-20T05:25:35+00:00

Greetings! I have been tasked to create a report off files we receive from

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Greetings!

I have been tasked to create a report off files we receive from our hardware suppliers. I need to grep these files for two fields ‘Test_Version’ and ‘Model-Manufacturer’ ; for each field, I need to capture their corresponding values.

When running each statement separately, I get the results I want:

1) for ‘Test_Version’, it was straightforward:

find . -name "*.VER" -exec grep 'Test_Version=' '{}' ';' -print; 

./(FILE_NAME).VER
Test_Version=2.6.3
./(FILE_NAME).VER
Test_Version=2.4.7

2) for ‘Model-Manufacturer’, , it was a bit tricky since what I need is across multiple lines. I solved this issue by using Perl Regex option -P.

find . -name "*.VER" -exec grep -P 'Model-Manufacturer:.\n.' '{}' ';' -print

./(FILE_NAME).VER
--> Model-Manufacturer:
D12-100
./(FILE_NAME).VER
--> Model-Manufacturer:
H21-100

Ideally, I would like to create a simple report that looks like this

(FILE_NAME)
Test_Version=2.6.3
Model-Manufacturer:    D12-100
(FILE_NAME)
Test_Version=2.4.7
Model-Manufacturer:    H21-100

My attempt to combine both greps is not working i.e nothing is found:

find . -name "*.VER" -exec grep -P 'Test_Version=.Model-Manufacturer:.\n.' '{}' ';' -print

How can I grep to search for both fields and produce the output I want?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I created a test file:

    $ cat test1.VER
Test_Version=2.6.3
Model-Manufacturer:
D12-100
Test_Version=2.4.7
Model-Manufacturer:
H21-100
Test_Version=2.6.3
Model-Manufacturer:
D12-100
Test_Version=2.4.7
Model-Manufacturer:
H21-100

    I created a copy, to replicate searching through multiple files:

    $ cp test1.VER test2.VER

    Finally, I am able to generate the report you’re looking for using the following string of commands:

    $ find . -name "*.VER" -print -exec egrep -A 1 'Test_Version=|Model-Manufacturer:' {} ';' | sed -e '/Model/N; s/\n/ /'
./test1.VER
Test_Version=2.6.3
Model-Manufacturer: D12-100
Test_Version=2.4.7
Model-Manufacturer: H21-100
Test_Version=2.6.3
Model-Manufacturer: D12-100
Test_Version=2.4.7
Model-Manufacturer: H21-100
./test2.VER
Test_Version=2.6.3
Model-Manufacturer: D12-100
Test_Version=2.4.7
Model-Manufacturer: H21-100
Test_Version=2.6.3
Model-Manufacturer: D12-100
Test_Version=2.4.7
Model-Manufacturer: H21-100

    egrep allows for extended regular expressions, in which I’m using | as the alternation operator.

    The -A flag to (e)grep, makes it provide a line of context after each match. If your input files have unwanted content after the Test_Version lines, you may need to include a grep -v command piped in between find and sed to strip out the unwanted output.

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