I have searched a lot in google regarding the various search commands available for linux, but everywhere i got the commands only for files. But suppose i know the name of a folder but not it's path, then what is the command to search for it's path.
View 10 RepliesI 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.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I used the find command, I almost always need to search the local drives. But, I almost always have super large network shares mounted and these are included in the search. Is there an easy way to exclude those in the find command, grep and other similar commands? Example:
find / -name .vimrc
I have a folderA that contains folderB that contains a lot of files. I would like to get rid of folderB, but not its contents. I want those contents to be inside of folderA. How can I accomplish this on the commandline?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got some photos with two or more tags on and I was wondering if there was a way of only showing photos that had one tag and not another. I've found a way of doing it with AND and OR (the default) but I really want to search, for example, all my 'holiday' photos that don't have any pictures of person 'X' in.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need a hand with a line of terminal commands. I need to be able to search a given .sh file in a given location for a string, and when found, add a "#" to the start of that string and save the file back to it's original location.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am very familiar with "find" and "locate" and many of the options they provide. Does anyone know a tool in order to search inside of documents and files like you would do it with the finder on Mac or with Windows search?I guess these tools use an indexer which is always running and indexing the content of every file so you can search and find a file based on what is in it, rather than by name only like locate would do.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to know is there a command to find size of a folder.
View 4 Replies View RelatedBy mistake i deleted imp folder which as certain imp files created, so i want to reterive it ? is it possible by using any specific linux commands only
View 4 Replies View RelatedI know these folders each have >80gb of files. Yet, they only show 4.0K in ls -lah? How can I have ls show size including the contents?
[root@aapsan01 aapxen01]# ls -lah
total 48K
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4.0K Sep 29 03:45 .
drwxrwxrwx 15 root root 4.0K Sep 27 09:15 ..
[Code]....
How can I open a folder in a window from the command line. I don't want to list the contents of the folder by the "ls" command, but want to open the folder through the command line, like it opens when we double click on the folder.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have many folders with many subfolders. All I want it to get the folder name and the first subfolder. I tried using ls -R but this give me more than I want it. Let say I have:
dir1/subdir1/sub_1_1/file.a
dir1/subdir1/sub_1_1/file.a2
dir1/subdir1/sub_1_1/file.a3
[code]....
All I want when I execute the command is to show me:
dir1/subdir1
dir1/subdir1
dir1/subdir2
[code]....
I need a script that executes a command based on a folder's last modified time.
if "/var/data" was modified in less than an hour then "/usr/local/etc/searchd stop" should be run
can we use "find -mmin +60 -type d" in conjunction with second command
are there any commands to search your Mac using terminal? I tried usin grep to search but it seems somewhat unresponsive and nothing comes up.
For example, I would type "grep Files" (A folder name) and it just prints a blank line and nothing happens.
is there any way to execute a command every time a "folder changes status"? Under windows there's an API which pro-actively tells you when something has changed within a directory, so I was trying to achieve something similar under Linux. I can't think anything else other than check the list of files and parameters (e.g. date/size/owner) every few seconds, but that's not ideal of course... So what I'm asking here is: is there is a way to set linux to tell me rather than me go and check?
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes less have an incremental search?
I'm on xubuntu.
I'm currently trying to design a small, simple enough shell program for area codes. I have a list of area codes in a database, and I am trying to write a program that will have a user input an area code, and then have the program print out information that immediately follows that area code in my database. I assume I need to use a find or locate command, but I'm not sure if I should be searching for a string or the number itself. The number could possibly occur at some other point in the file, though the way I have the file set up it only occurs once at the newline.
what function I should use and how I should go about it? As is I only have the absolute bare-bones beginning of having an echo for the prompt to input an area-code, and the read once it's input. Without the find I'm not sure how much farther I can get. Also, would it make it easier if I added some character such as a ! to the end of the number at the newline to make it easier to search for? With a macro that would be easy enough to do.
I had opened a file in vim editor in my ubuntu 8.04 & wanted to see if line ends with
(like DOS) or
(in UNIX)
I tried
Code:
:%s/
//gn
& vi editor got hung with processor nearing 50%
Then I pressed ctrl+c & vim resumed with message
Code:
147416605 matches on 1 line
So my question is
(1)why this reaction from vim ?
(2)I want to see all control characters in file.
I used notepad++ in windows & it had option to differentiate tabs, spaces, return etc.
I am in love with this wallpaper [URL] for slackware. I serched in google until page 32 and no image appear that match this one.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhat I am usinggrep -B 1 -A 2 "Installed" /var/log/updates.logInstead of tailing the log is there a way to grep all lines of the log with word Installed AND today's date? Also, what about grep lines of the log that contain a specific date and more than one word, by example : ('Installed' or 'Failed' on '2011-06-24')?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI want to search lines with these stings with one or more spaces..
e.g
Code:
a b
a b
a b
a b
How will I achieve this by egrep ?
I often have many windows open on many virtual desktops and I have hard time finding some application.
So is there any tool for searching open windows?
Currently I using Awesome as my window manager, but it does not need to be dependent on it.
I often send and receive gpg-encrypted mail. At the moment I use thunderbird + enigmail (in linux) to do that. As far as I know there is no way in thunderbird to find all encrypted messages which bodies contain particular keywords. There also seems to be no option to save encrypted mails decrypted (so they would be searchable). However for me it is important to be able to search old encrypted mails.
Is there a way in linux to save incoming mails automatically decrypted in my inbox and save outgoing encrypted mail decrypted in the send folder? Both times adding a line to the body which remarks that the mail was encrypted.It could be another email client for linux that could to that or perhaps a solution using procmail or maildrop.For a procmail solution I guess there could be some problems with encoding (perhaps one have to use emil?). Note that the solution should work for multipart encrypted messages (including encrypted attachments) too. The point is that the mails are encrypted on the mailserver or more generally on their "way through the net".
I have a directory that has a large number of files, around 1.5 million at this point. If I go to the directory and type in "ls filename" for a filename that I know exists, ls just hangs. I have let it run for over 20 minutes and it never does anything. Up until yesterday the directory was working fine through samba serving up files, but now it doesn't return anything. How to proceed from here?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am looking for all the files that contain the text string 'moo.sql'. I ran the following:
find . -name '*.php' | grep -lir 'moo.sql' *
Unfortunately it seems to return non-php files in addition to php files. I thought the find portion of this would filter the file names so grep would only search php files.
I'm a frequent user of grep. I know that I can recursively search a directory using the -r flag:
Code:
// will recursively search all files
grep -r 'some string' *
However, if I want to limit my search to PHP files, the -r flag is suddenly useless:
Code:
// for some reason, this only searches the PHP files in the current dir
grep -r 'some string' *.php
Any good way to recursively search a directory and its subdirs for a string but ONLY look at PHP or HTML files (and possibly TXT files too) ? I'm really hoping for a nice, short command that doesn't involve using an exclude file and which isn't really painful to type. I do this kind of search very frequently and have resorted to either searching EVERY file which is really slow (TAR and ZIP files really slow it down) OR typing repeated commands to search *.php, */*.php, etc.
I am interested to know solutions for ns2 problems.Basically i am doing mini project using ns2.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to search ALL files on a system for a specific text string? I've been messing around with grep without any luck.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI promise I am carefully studying shell use, and much else, but right now I just need the shell instruction to search directories recursively, for files with .swo & .swp extensions, deleting the files as they're found.
View 7 Replies View Relatedone command to list the list of folders/ within the folder.
View 4 Replies View Related