How put every files result by a grep into a zip file

Question

I'm searching every txt files that contains string1 and string2

grep -rnE --include='*.txt' 'string1|string2'

Now I want to put all those files into a zip file.

Thanks

EDIT this script suggest by @anubhava works for me

grep --null -rlE --include='*.txt' 'string1|string2' | xargs -0 -I {} zip test.zip '{}'

Answer 1

You can use -l option in grep to output only filename and pipe it to xargs to create zip for each found fine:

grep --null -rlE --include='*.txt' 'string1|string2' |
xargs -0 -I {} zip '{}'.zip '{}'

Note use of --null option with -0 in xargs to address filenames with whitespaces, special characters.

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To create a single zip file containing each matched file use:

grep --null -rlE --include='*.txt' 'string1|string2' |
xargs -0 zip test.zip