GREP a directory to check for uppercase

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello All,

I am trying to write a script to search in my current directory to look for all files that end with HTML and look for any HTML tags that are in upper case. for example if I were to grep test.html and test.html has a tag <P> instead of <p> then it would print the file name. This is what I have:

#!/bin/sh

for x in *.html

    do
    echo $x | grep \\&lt;[A-Z]\+\\&gt;
    if [ $? -ge "1" ]
    then
    echo $x
    fi
 done

thank you in advance.

2

Hi Raw,

Try this one..hope this should work..

#!/bin/sh
for x in *.html
do
echo $x | grep -l "<[A-Z]>"
if [ $? -ge "0" ]
then
echo $x
fi
done

oR

You can use like ..

grep -l "<[A-Z]>" *.html

this will print all the file name which has upper case tab inside...

Thanks
Sha:)

3

Hello Shahul,

Thank you for your response and help.

With the edited changes it does not work.

Lets say I have a directory of:

uppercase.sh
test_0.html --- File has <P> capital tag
test_1.html --- File has no capital tags
test_2.html --- File has no capital tags

The output result is as follows:

test_0.html
test_1.html
test_2.html

Expected Result: ( I could be wrong)

test_0.html test_0.html
test_1.html
test_2.html

4

Please try now and let me know :slight_smile:

#!/bin/sh
for x in *.html
do
echo $x | grep "<[A-Z]>"
if [ $? -eq "0" ]
then
echo $x
fi
done

Thanks
Sha

5

I think you mean

cat $x | grep "<[A-Z]>"
not
echo $x | grep "<[A-Z]>"

6

Thank you again :b:. Same result :frowning:

however: grep -l "<[A-Z]>" *.html
works flawlessly :slight_smile:

Not sure why:
#!/bin/sh

for x in *.html

    do
    echo $x | grep "&lt;[A-Z]&gt;"
    if [ $? -ge "0" ]
    then
    echo $x
    fi
 done

Doesn't work :frowning:

7

Try this

grep -l "\<[A-Z]\>" *.html

8

Oops..

sorry i was doing some other things...

below one should definetely work..:slight_smile: ...

#!/bin/sh
for x in *.html
do
cat $x | grep "<[A-Z]>"
if [ $? -eq "0" ]
then
echo $x
fi
done

Thanks
Sha

9

This works, but my understanding is with this expression:
echo $x | grep "<[A-Z]>"
if [ $? -ge "0" ]
then
echo $x
fi

Should only print the file name "$x" if in fact it contains a capital tag.

The cat $x | grep "<[A-Z]>"

Results with :

sh-3.2$ ./qt6.sh
test_1.html
test_2.html
<P>testtesttest</P>
test.html
sh-3.2$

Expected:

sh-3.2$ ./qt6.sh
<P>testtesttest</P>
test.html
sh-3.2$

Thank you everyone.

10

Cheers!!:b:

:b::b::b::b::b::b:

11

Sorry one more question!

If I wanted to check for :

<H1> </H1>

or <H12> </H12>

I've tried these:

grep -l "\<[A-Z]?[0-9]+\>" *.html

Am I going in the right direction?

12

Try like this

grep -l "\<.*[A-Z].*\>" *.html

This should match lines which are having any capital letter between < and >

Regards

Ranjith