Shell script string search where '#' is not in 1st character position

this string search was provided by Paul.R (much appreciated Paul):

** find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -F -f strings.txt **

Note, I am using the above search argument to perform a recursive directory search for hard coded path names within shell scripts. However, due to the limitations of the Unix environment (TRU64) I am unable to use the GREP -r switch to perform my directory search. Hence the use of the solution provided above.

As an additional criteria, I would like to extend this search argume开发者_开发百科nt to exclude any text where the first leading character of the string being searched is "#" (comment symbol).

Would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks...Evan

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I'm assuming you're just trying to limit the results in the output from the command you posted. If that's so, then how about

find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -F -f strings.txt | grep -v '^#'

The final piped command will ignore all lines that match the regex ^# (begins with # char)

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This solution will not work if the path and file of the files is contained in strings.txt, but it might work in your situation.

find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -v '^#' | grep -F -f strings.txt