Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:35:13 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Jerry Preeper <preeper@cts.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with find command Message-ID: <20000318233513.C20206@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <38D27307.880CB12C@3-cities.com>; from kstewart@3-cities.com on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:01:43AM -0800 References: <3.0.5.32.20000317034932.0087b9c0@cts.com> <38D27307.880CB12C@3-cities.com>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:01:43AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
> Jerry Preeper wrote:
> >
> > I have been using the find command to search for files periodically that
> > contain certain phrases throughout the web directory like this
> > find . -exec grep -l "getimage.cgi" {} \; 2> /www/jerry/wrong-banners.txt
>
> For starters I would add -name "*.htm*" after the dot(.) and then
> change the -l to -L. Add what ever string you are looking for after
> the "-L". From man grep, the -L identifes files that do not contain
> the string.
At times, find option `-type f' might also prove handy.
I've seen a directory entry being written on my terminal, because it was
lucky (or unlucky) enough to contain the pattern I looked for ;)
- Giorgos Keramidas
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