General :: What GUI Linux Programs Are There For Finding Files Based Upon Their Contents?
Sep 18, 2010What GUI Linux programs are there for finding files based upon their contents?
View 5 RepliesWhat GUI Linux programs are there for finding files based upon their contents?
View 5 RepliesI know find can do what I am looking for, but I am wondering if there is an alternative way to find files on the filesystem either created before/after a certain point, or at a certain time.
Typically I rely on updatedb & locate for most of my file searching needs. Issues with those tools, though, are that it only has directory and file names, and it only creates a database of local directories, not anything mounted via CIFS|NFS or via -o loop (eg, .iso images).
So if I need to find files created after yesterday across the entire system (local and remote filesystems), I am currently needing to use find.
What other tools, if any, would accomplish this in a similar fashion?
I have tried ls and grep, but that requires (in my attempts so far) multiple searches:
ls -lR | grep Aug | grep 10
ls -lR | grep Aug | grep 11
I have a directory with some data files in it. I did an md5sum find, and built an index of all the files contained:
Code:
find ./* -type f -print0 | xargs --null md5sum > MD5SUM
Now, based on my new index, I want to find the copies of these files as they appear in a new directory, where they have been renamed and reorganized.
how to install programs, that i downloaded onto my windows XP computer,and they are for linux, i downloading it off a site.i just need to learn how to install it,and i need to find a media player that plays FLV files, as well as MP3 files, with the codec preinstalled,or how to install codecs.im sorry im really new to linux, i was considering switching to Mint, is that any better for media?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI would like that users can log to X but this with a text based xdm + how to active it as last in inittab since it is text what contains my inittab
Code:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
[code]....
I'm not afraid of bash but I'm not very good with it either. I'm assuming there's a way of using find, perhaps in conjunction with another tool, to find images in a directory (and subdirectories) based on their dimensions?
Specifically, I want to find all the landscape-oriented images and copy them somewhere else.
I could not get get the LG External CD R/W Drive that I recently purchased to work with my ASUS Eee Netbook (Linux based) and ended up giving the drive to a friend to use with his Windows XP based laptop.How do I make an External CD R/W Drive work with this Linux-based machine?I am an engineer (civil-structural), but not that savvy with respect to computers; particularly issues of compatibility of hardware / software.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat programs under Linux can capture ethernet traffic? And which ones from them are maintained and most comfortable?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIm trying to install a trading program fx trading station II on a dedicated virtual server that's linux based at media temple. Any ideas on how to run the program so that the exe file isn't prompting to download the file instead of prompting the user to login and trade?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have multiple HTML files in a folder. there is a <h2> tag like this:
Code:
<h2>some text</h2>
in each file. I want to write a shell script/batch file to add this tag in <head> section of each file:
Code:
<!-- TITLE= "same text from h2 tag" -->
Note that <h2>some text</h2> in some files has 1 or more linebreaks and so I couldn't capture tag content using a simple grep or...
for example:
<h2>first part of text
second line of text</h2>
The line break shouldn't be shown in <!-- TITLE= "same text from h2 tag" -->. The script has to capture tag content & skip line breaks.
I have an Excel Spreadsheet which reports upon weekly performance. One portion of the worksheet looks at week over week increases /decreases. I've placed a number of image controls (15 in Total) next to cells which calculate week over week change. The image controls simply display an image depending on whether the value of the adjacent cell is positive or negative. So, here is my basic working IF statement:
Code:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal UpDown As Range)
If Range("J26") > 0 And IsNumeric(Range("J26").Value) Then
Image1.Picture = LoadPicture("C:path oup_arrow.gif")
ElseIf Range("J26") < 0 And IsNumeric(Range("J26").Value) Then
[code]....
As you can see, this is pretty simple. What I'd like to do is find a way to loop through all 15 controls and avoid having 15 IF statements run on the Worksheet_Change() event. The cells containing the week over week values are all in the same column, but not continuous. Involved cells are: ("J26", "J27", "J33", "J34", "J35", "J36", "J37", "J38", "J39", "J40", "J42", "J43", "J44", "J45", "J46")
Am using the below script to send mails as an sql output . but the below script sends the generated file even if it is empty (if there is no outputs generated from the sql command) .
I want to send mail only if the file has some valid outputs. How to do this
{code}
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
[code]....
What I would like to do is to print the contents of all text files in a particular directory, recursively. Problem being that there are directories and possibly binaries scattered around in the filesystem as well.
Trying cat * works as long as there are no directories in there, but when there are it gives an error instead and prints nothing.
I'm sure it's easy using file -f or something but I can't figure it!
I want to configure a ACL Permit/ Deny, what steps I need to keep in consideration.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need an FM transmitter (with RDS support) that can be controlled via the linux kernel, preferably connected via USB.
Recommend a good programmable USB-based FM transmitter?
I have investigated an architecture with i2c-tiny-usb interfaced with a Silicon Labs si4713, but the additional circuitry to get it to work it too much. (I'm not an electronics engineer).
Code:
cp -r aa123.h aa*.h
results in
Code:
cp: target `aa456.h' is not a directory
Yes I read man page cp (1p). There is something written there about it, I couldn't understand though.
Being new to this area .I have been assigned a task which i am unable to do . Can any one please help me .
I have requirement where i have input file XYZ_111_999_YYYYMMDD_1.TXT and with header and series of Numbers and Footer.
I want to create a mutiple output files with each file having a seperate code which is stored in text file and create XYZ_222_999_YYYYMMDD_1.TXT . and add date in the contents next to series of numbers .Like this
Before change the file looks like this
file name XYZ_111_999_YYYYMMDD_1.TXT
001,19SEP2009-14:05:05,000000003
1234
4567
6785
END_OF_DATA
[Code]....
A program that looks like abook for storing passwd? Is there this for console, would be a console based for zsafe alternative?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been using Ubuntu 9.10 fairly regularly on my home computer for a week or two now, dual-booting it with Windows 7. So far I've been quite happy with it, but yesterday something odd happened. I decided to copy all the music I had stored on the Windows partition over to the Ubuntu file system so that I could listen to it there. I have about 16 gigs of music mostly in .mp3 format, so I put the folder on an external hard drive, then logged into Ubuntu and copied it back from the external drive to my Music file.
Once the transfer was done, I opened the Music file and double-clicked on one of the .mp3s at random to play it. When I did this, a window popped up and the first half-second or so of the track played, and then the window closed and it stopped. This happened once or twice more with different .mp3s. The window didn't last long enough for me to get a good idea of what program it was for, but I assume it was Totem, which I hadn't yet run since installing Ubuntu, because according to the Properties->Open With tab of any .mp3 file, that's the default program to use to open .mp3s.
Attempting to run Totem from the Applications menu gives the same result, I later found. Attempting to run Totem from a terminal gave the following error:
andrew@Lovelace-Linux:~$ totem
** (totem:2323): WARNING **: Could not import pygtk
ImportError: No module named pygtk
Segmentation fault
Then, several other programs began having similar issues immediately after I first tried to play a .mp3 yesterday. Specifically, Rhythmbox - which I also hadn't used before, and next tried to use to play the music - will not start at all. Running it from the terminal gives:
andrew@Lovelace-Linux:~$ rhythmbox
** (rhythmbox:2338): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed
** (rhythmbox:2338): CRITICAL **: atk_object_set_name: assertion `name != NULL' failed
(rhythmbox:2338): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Could not import pygtk
ImportError: No module named pygtk
Segmentation fault
Note that pygtk is again referenced. The weirdest part is that other program that's having this issue, an IM client called emesene, is one that I had been using just fine, without issue, for several sessions previous. Since trying to play that .mp3, it now won't run at all. I tried removing and re-installing emesene, to no avail. Running it from the Terminal gives:
andrew@Lovelace-Linux:~$ emesene
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/emesene/Controller.py", line 21, in <module>
import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk
This time the missing module is gtk, but I know that emesene is written in Python, which the earlier "pygtk" is perhaps a reference to. Thus, the connecting thread between all these programs, as near as I can tell, is Python.
Is there a simple web-based solution for a group looking to securely share files online? The software needs to run on our own servers due to regulatory laws. I want users to be able to go to a web site, request an account (which I should be able to accept or reject), and upload/download/manage files in a web-based (preferably ajax-y) file manager. File access controls (via users/groups) is desirable.Yes, I know that SSH/SFTP is the 'proper' solution, but many of the users will be office workers and installing an SFTP client and configuring it is too advanced for them. Same goes for Samba+VPN setups...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed Fedora 12 on a new machine (Intel Core i3) and one of my terminal-based programs won't run because it can't find libtermcap. The specific error is
Quote:
error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I seem to have this problem every other time I install a new Fedora. I tried a few things with old libtermcap files from other machines, and I tried looking around the YUM repository, but nothing seemed to work.
What's the proper way to get the libtermcap libraries for a Fedora 12 machine on an iCore i3?
since it started i cannot launch software-center, vlc, emesene... they all stopped working... i checked the logs of synaptic to see if i removed a python package and i didn't. i tried selecting all python packages for reinstall, and it didn't help! i really don't want to reinstall ubuntu.
View 9 Replies View Relatedfinding a sort of LINUX chkdsk /f /r for the drives of ntfs-3g?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a console based applications (/ script) for viewing PDF documents? pdftk can convert, but a cool program, maybe it exists.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAre there any semi professional Freeware cad programs in Linux.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've been struggling for a couple of days to understand how configuration files work in Linux but haven't really found any clear information regarding that.My main question, as there is not a standard configuration file format in Linux, is how the format of a configuration file is understood by a Linux program? How the program reads its configuration file and how it understands its syntax (file format)? Also, a further question is how the program knows where its configuration file is being located?
For example inittab has its own "Identifier:RunLevel:Action:Command" format. How this is recognised by the "init" process?
I have both windows and linux in my system.I want to know how I can access linux files from windows.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI would like to know how to find out the name of programs so that I could launch them in Terminal. For example, to launch gimp, I just type
Code:gimp and it launches. Well how do I find out other names to other programs?
I have a situation where a directory has about 1.5 million files in it. On an hourly basis, I want to be able to find any files that have changed in the last hour, compress them, encrypt them and then copy them to both a local backup machine and an off site backup.
Is there any kind of utility or kernel module that creates some type of log of modified files? I know I can use find, but the search for -mtime in this directory takes quite a while and will not suffice for an hourly backup.
To find all files recursively starting with a . (period), is the following OK:
find ./ -name '.'*