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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T23:43:30+00:00 2026-05-13T23:43:30+00:00

I need to write a Shell Script to process a huge folder of nearly

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I need to write a Shell Script to process a huge folder of nearly 20 levels.I have to process each and every file and check which files contain lines like
select
insert
update

When I mean line it should take the line till I find a semicolon in that file.
I should get a result like this

C:/test.java   select * from dual
C:/test.java   select * from test
C:/test1.java  select * from tester
C:/test1.java  select * from dual

and so on.Right now I have a script to read all the files

#!bin/ksh

FILE=<FILEPATH to be traversed>
TEMPFILE=<Location of Temp file>
cd $FILE    
for f in `find . ! -type d`; 
do
cat $FILE/addedText.txt>>$TEMPFILE/newFile.txt
cat $f>>$TEMPFILE/newFile.txt
rm $f
cat $TEMPFILE/newFile.txt>>$f
rm $TEMPFILE/newFile.txt
done

I have very little knowledge of awk and sed to proceed further in reading each file and achieve what I want to.Can anyone help me in this

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    2026-05-13T23:43:30+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 11:43 pm

    if you have GNU find/gawk

    find /path -type f -name "*.java" | while read -r FILE
    do
      awk -vfile="$FILE" 'BEGIN{RS=";"}
      /select|update|insert/{
         b=gensub(/(.*)(select|update|insert)(.*)/,"\\2\\3","g",$0)
         gsub(/\n+/,"",b)
         print file,b
      }
      ' "$FILE"
    
    done
    

    if you are on Solaris, use nawk

    find /path -type f -name "test*file" | while read -r FILE
    do
      nawk -v file="$FILE" 'BEGIN{RS=";"}
      /select/{ gsub(/.*select/,"select");gsub(/\n+/,"");print file,$0; }
      /update/{ gsub(/.*update/,"update");gsub(/\n+/,"");print file,$0; }
      /insert/{ gsub(/.*insert/,"insert");gsub(/\n+/,"");print file,$0; }
      ' "$FILE"
    done
    

    Note this is simplistic case. your SQL statement might be more complicated.

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