zgrep on multiple input variables issue

Question

I have an issue using zgrep. I want to look for a XML file based on an ID and a certain Date given by the user. Each XML file contains an ID and a date in it. The program should acknowledge that these files may have the same ID but a different Date. I tried to use zgrep but I don't know how to look for two different variables and my code doesn't work. Here's my code:

echo "Introduce ID: "
read -r InputCode
echo "Set a specific Date [ DD-MM-YYYY ]: "
read -r Date

#Search patterns in every zip folder
find . -print0 | xargs -0 zgrep -l $InputCode && $Date

I would appreciate your help!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — chepner, May 22 '17 at 17:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '17 at 18:15

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You cannot grep both ID and Date with a single grep command if they are not on the same line. Try this:

find . -print0 | xargs -0 zgrep -lZ -e "$InputCode" | xargs -0 zgrep -l -e "$Date"

answered May 22 '17 at 18:15

Yang Yang

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It works! thank you so much. It can find the first file of each zip folder but not the other files. you think might be a bug? – Jafet Soto May 22 '17 at 18:41
It sees works fine on my machine. But there are certain bugs about zgrep on some distributions. – Yang Yang May 22 '17 at 18:58
Thank you for helping me guys – Jafet Soto May 22 '17 at 19:22

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