# SCAN

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/scan/100641>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux\
**Created:** [May 29, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/scan/100641 "2012-05-29T21:34:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![John\_Smith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/john_smith/32/39012_2.png) [@John\_Smith](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/John_Smith)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/scan/100641/1 "2012-05-29T21:34:36Z")

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Hi,

According to the manual, SCAN command is not executed via Batch, I suppose it means in batchmode or would it be any kind of batch? If you have many libraries to search any string, how can I do to execute at once in order to avoid to type one by one.

tks.

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**Author:** ![Matthias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Matthias1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Matthias1)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/scan/100641/2 "2012-06-01T10:08:00Z")

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> [@John Smith](#):
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> According to the manual, SCAN command is not executed via Batch, I suppose it means in batchmode or would it be any kind of batch? If you have many libraries to search any string, how can I do to execute at once in order to avoid to type one by one.

Hello John,

I would work on file system level. If you are on Linux/Unix it’s quite an easy job: Just use grep.

Matthias

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**Author:** ![John\_Smith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/john_smith/32/39012_2.png) [@John\_Smith](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/John_Smith)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/scan/100641/3 "2012-06-15T15:26:04Z")

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Hi Mathias,

thank you for you suggestion, I will do it.

tks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/scan/100641/4 "2021-04-02T15:02:01Z")

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