General :: Listing Files Whose Contain A String?
May 5, 2010
following can be used to locate files that contain the contents 'SomeString' or 'SomeOtherString':
Code:
find /home/username/public_html -type f -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -l 'SomeString|SomeOtherString'
How would I limit this to searching for the text 'SomeString' or 'SomeOtherString', but only if the file has extension .php, .inc or .js? Also - what piping to xargs does here? I don't understand how this command actually works.
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Jan 21, 2010
I can't seem to find a way to do this, so maybe it's not actually possible, but I was wondering if there was a way to list all files that link to a file.
For example.
touch a
ln a b
ln a c
I want to find out what files link to a (not symlinks, mind you), assuming that this is more complicated (they are spread around to different directories).
I kind of understand about the filesystem storing links in one area and data in another, so I understand it probably takes more work to find a link from a file location than the other way around.
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Mar 13, 2011
I have a requirement to list files using find command My folder contains below list of files with out extention.I have a requirement to exclude only ABC.123.* type files and list others. Even though files having MNO contains this pattern i should not exclude. Even if file ends with .txt or .doc it should not be excluded. That is ABC.123.1234.txt should not be excluded.But I am not getting what is required. Can any one please let me know if I am doing wrong any where. As per my requirement I cannot use grep, -regex, or -regex attributes to find command.
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Oct 4, 2010
I need to list the files only from 23:00 to 23:30 on 3rd oct 2010 from a directory and then zip them and have it.how to execute the same.
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Mar 24, 2011
its a very basic question but iam not getting it right nowi have to list all the pdf files on my desktop even the pdf files which are present in folders on the desktopls *.pdfonly list the files present on the desktop, but not the files in the folders on the desktop containing the pdf files.
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Jul 20, 2010
Is it possible for listing directory and files' permission into numbers?
Generally ls command shows directory and files' permission as follows;
[root:maestro:/home/ddisk_net]# ls -al
Total 44
drwx------ 4 ddisk_net users 4096 7월 20 10:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 7월 20 10:28 ..
-rw------- 1 ddisk_net webteam 5 7월 20 10:40 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 ddisk_net users 33 1월 22 2009 .bash_logout
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Jun 11, 2011
Moving right along, I have a folder of MP3 files containing various Movie sound tracks and scores. I'm using Audio Tag Tool to tag all the files at once with an "Artist" of "Soundtrack", and to inherit the "Title" tag from the file name. After that, I will rename all the files (Using Audio Tag Tool -- awesome program, btw) with the format "<Artist> - <Title>.mp3"
The problem, is many of my files already contain the string "Soundtrack", which would be redundant. I happen to be a perfectionist, so I'm unable to ignore it and move on. Hence my question to you fine folk: I want to delete all instances of "soundtrack" (-i case irrelevant) in the filenames before I go through the above steps. But, its not quite that simple. This is a sample of some of the file names:
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Jul 22, 2011
suppose in my current directory, I have 50 sub-directories. Now, I am interested only in about 20 of those sub-directories (whose names match a pattern). I would like to recursively list the contents of these 20 sub-directories. How do I do that ? I would like to do this in Solaris 10 and Linux(RHEL 5.x).
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Mar 24, 2011
I'm trying to make a shell script that will list the 50 newest files in a directory with several subdirectories in. I've been trying with the find-command with no luck and now I've figured I should probably use ls. The problem is when I do "ls -lRt | head -50" it will do 1 directory at the time. It will not first make the full list and then sort it. This will display all items in first directory, sorted, then the newest directory will be sorted and displayed. So I figured I have to sort the whole process of ls before I limit the head. So this is where I am at now: ls -lRt | sort <something clever here> | head -50
Only doing a "|sort|" will sort it by name if I understand it right and I don't know how to solve it. Here's also my first attempt if that is of any interrest or help, this was limited by the change status time of files (so some lists got very large). These lists dit not get sorted by time and I could not find any way to do so.find $ftpDir -ctime $time -type f -print > $ftpFileLsAny help on this would be appreciated since I'm sort of stuck now. After reading manuals for all the options I can think of and still there's just a big blur in my head..
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Jul 4, 2010
I would like a command or a bash script that search all files in all sub, modified last 12 hours, in /var/logs and that contains "alfa" or "bravo". The output should be filename of the file or files that contains that.
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Jan 18, 2010
How do you perform a long directory listing of all files in the /bin directory that have exactly three characters in their name?
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May 8, 2010
I am trying to remove all the files in a directory hierarchy which a certain string inside the file (not the file name, it is the file content).
I can list out all the file name which has a string in the file using 'grep -r -l mystringlooking for'.
But how can I remove all the files returned by the grep ? I am trying this on ubuntu.
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Feb 17, 2010
How can you remove files containing a specific string?I have...Code:find |grep 'string'This may return several results and I wanted to rm the results.I also have...Code:ls -l |grep 'string'|awk '{print $9}'which also may return results.But point is, I can't supply the results as a parameter to rmI was thinking of looping but I don't know how to access the results as if they were an array or something.
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Oct 28, 2009
find out a command to search among all *.dat files in a certain path (including subdirectories) looking for the following text in them:
Code:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elements with small area
Element Adjusted nodes
--------- --------------
16294 NO
17889 NO
and getting the list of elements with small area printed in a file "ErrorEl.txt". The output should have this form:
"/path/01/A.dat
bad-el#01
bad-el#02
[code]....
I know already how to find out the dat files containg a certain string
Code:
c=/path/
grep -R --include="*.dat" "Elements with small area" $c | cut -d: -f1>> ErrorEl.txt
but I don't know then how to get the element numbers(16294 and 17889 in the example above)
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Mar 3, 2011
Is it possible to search ALL files on a system for a specific text string? I've been messing around with grep without any luck.
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Jan 15, 2010
After hours (literally) of searching the web and reading man pages, I think I've come up with the following:Code:find . -exec grep 'path/to/file' -print | xargs -0 -I new_path mv {this is where I get confused}So my code above is incomplete, obviously. In order to finish replacing the string, I need to mv the new file into the old file's spot. How do I do this, by incorporating it into my line of code?
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Oct 5, 2010
Assumed y directory structure looks as follow:
Code:
--root
-- dir1
-- dir1-1
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And under each sub dir there are some log files ended with .log. Now I know how to list all these log files with:
Code:
find . -type f -name "*.log"
Assumed now there is a string called "Hello World" inside some of these files. How can I find out these files? I try followings but failed
Code:
grep "This is" | find . -mtime 0 -type f -name "*.log"
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Mar 3, 2010
I have the following bash script:
#Add extension into the name
for FILE in $(ls $SOURCE*$1*);
do echo $FILE;
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May 4, 2010
I want linux command to parse a particular string or pattern in files that are in my home directory and its sub-directory.
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Jun 27, 2011
I just want to know if we can search for a particular string in all files of a particular folder in linux. if a folder has 100files only that hundred files needs to be checked for a particular string.
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Nov 20, 2010
I am a member of a group which has written a program whose source code is being held in a specific directory (~cs252/Assignments/basicAsst/project) and we want to go through and change the parameters for the function "sequentialInsert." My job is to find all occurances of the function call to "sequentialInsert" and to also list the files from where the code came from. Also, I have to be in the commandsAsst directory when I do this. I have tried grep and find combined together, and I am at a lost.
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Oct 31, 2010
I am looking for Windows Search equivalent looking for file name patterns (not file contents but file names)....
I am aware of "globbing" and wildcard recursive search functionality in ls but I am still not capable of finding files under directories.
for example: I want to find all files starting with a string lsnr* under root directory / and any sub-directories.....
ie I want to look for files like lsnr*.* anywhere under / and any sub-directories under / such as /dir1/dir2/dir4 and dir1/other/dir/someotherdir/sub-dir etc.
so if I have /dir1/lsnrcontrol and also have /dir1/dir/2/dir3/lsnr-tinit.dat then I want to list the files names etc.
how to do this using ls -R and wildcards.
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Jul 22, 2011
lets say I have a project that have generated lots of xml files. Though all these xml files point to a location with the text name TEXT15. I want to change all the files that containts TEXT15 and change it to TEXT16. This actually works for files in a folder but not recursively in all the entire files....perl -pi -c 's/TEXT15/TEXT16/g' ./* but I have many subfolders and within this more subsub folders....i just want to do this recursively.
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Apr 7, 2011
I have the following problem:
CASE_FOLDER
----------->0_FOLDER
-------------------->ForceX ForceY ForceZ
[code]...
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Jan 25, 2011
I have a newly built Redhat 5.5 box. When connecting over VPN and executing either "ls -al" or "df -h", the command prompt hangs without returning any output. Have got same result with TeraTerm and Putty clients. However, other commands run fine. Also,local users are able to run "ls -al" or "df -h" successfully.Storage is local disk. Any idea what could be mis-configured.
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Apr 24, 2010
I've got a Fedora 10 server with a simple read-only samba share.I'm able to mount and browse the share from a Fedora 12 client, but all directories appear as empty--and I can see on the server that they contain many files. This happens whether I browse using smbclient, or mount using mount.cifs.I've got smb/nmb ports enabled on both the client and server. File permissions on the server look right.The server smb.conf setup:
Code:
[global]
security = user
[code]...
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Oct 16, 2010
I think as a result of a script that started duplicating files in a loop, the allotted capacity on my VPS filled up with multiple nested copies of the same files... After a reboot, I could delete most of them, but got rm stalled in certain directories...
after isolating which ones, I found this: a directory listing that lists the files, and at the same time tells me they are not there!!!
partial listing:
Code:
ls
ls: cannot access userkey.php: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access workshop.php: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access quiz.php: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access webservice_rest.php: No such file or directory
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Sep 3, 2010
I am trying to grep a particular string from the files of 2 different servers without copying and calculate the total count of its occurence on both files. File structure is same on both servers and for reference as follows:
Code:
27-Aug-2010 10:04:30,601|919122874903|phtunes_app|1282243292627|NotifySmsReception|DMGenerateLogInterceptor - ExternalTransactionID:SDP-DM-26713018, TransactionStatus:Requested
27-Aug-2010
[code]....
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Jan 2, 2011
If I runls -R1I get a recursive listing of all files under the current directory.However, if I dols -R1 *.avi, ie I want to search only for files with the file descriptor .avi, I get an errorQuote:ls: cannot access *.avi:No such file or directorySo it seems I am using ls incorrectly. What's the correct way to use wild card pattern matching when using the -R switch? Or maybe that isn't possible?
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Oct 21, 2010
I'm using rsync to create a mirror of the data files on our main server every day. I've looked at the man page, and can't see it; can I get a listing of the files that have been changed on or added to the mirror when it's completed? Can it just log what it's doing to a file?
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