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How can i grep e move pdf files that containing the string "RELAÇÃO DOS TRABALHADORES" inside? Using ubuntu 14.4.
I already try to use:
grep -i -Z -r -l 'RELAÇÃO DOS TRABALHADORES' . | xargs -I{} mv {} ./destination
grep -lir 'RELAÇÃO DOS TRABALHADORES' target/* | xargs mv -t destionation/
mv `grep -lir 'RELAÇÃO DOS TRABALHADORES' target` destination/
But none of this work, at all. No errors, no outputs, nothing.
Thanks.
FXux
Posted 2016-03-18T12:54:25.690
Reputation: 47
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You should install pdfgrep package with:
sudo apt-get install pdfgrep
and run:
pdfgrep -Hc 'RELAÇÃO DOS TRABALHADORES' target/* | cut -d : -f1 | xargs -I{} mv -i '{}' ./destination
Replace mv with echo mv:
pdfgrep -Hc 'RELAÇÃO DOS TRABALHADORES' target/* | cut -d : -f1 | xargs -I{} echo mv -i '{}' ./destination
and see if you get correct mv commands with arguments.
Just for safety I suggest explicitly adding -i argument to mv so that it will demand confirmation if executing would result in overwriting an existing file.
techraf
Posted 2016-03-18T12:54:25.690
Reputation: 4 428
I installed the pdfgrep. How could i use? – FXux – 2016-03-18T13:19:34.357
Done, just please always test and see before executing the real mv command. – techraf – 2016-03-18T13:26:27.030
grep will never find text content in PDF files, though it will find some of the PDF control strings, such as job/endjob, etc. – AFH – 2016-03-18T13:56:53.840
IUPI! It works!!!!! – FXux – 2016-03-18T14:06:15.720
Hei techraf, i was wrong, is not working :(.. i have 100 pdfs with this string inside and is moving 90% of the files. – FXux – 2016-03-18T14:46:19.863
I'm afraid if pdfgrep does not find the string there is not much you can do. Are all PDFs searchable ie. can you find the string using some reader search function (like Ctrl+f)? – techraf – 2016-03-18T14:48:23.743
Thats not the case at all i think @techraf cause when i try to use "pdfgrep -in 'RELAÇÃO DOS TRABALHADORES' PDF/*.pdf" will print the files with the string – FXux – 2016-03-18T14:50:46.380
No solution for that i'm guessing @techraf?? – FXux – 2016-03-18T15:11:32.647
You didn't say if you can find the string in a pdf-reader. There could be extra whitespace or newlines between the words. If you shorten the searchphrase, is there any chance for false positives? – Lenne – 2016-03-24T00:14:44.603
I cannot check it at present, but if you can generate correctly the list (put attention to the spaces) then you can pipe to awk and create the command to move them. Mind the
""before and after the full path and filename. – Hastur – 2016-03-18T13:15:44.900Your main problem is that text in PDF files is encoded, so will never be found by
grep. @techraf's answer suggests usingpdfgrep, but other filters are possible, such as usinglesspipeorpdftotext. – AFH – 2016-03-18T13:58:25.747