Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:51:41 +1100 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Jerry Preeper <preeper@cts.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with find command Message-ID: <00031912521602.00663@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <38D27307.880CB12C@3-cities.com>
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Hello
- why not use the "locate" command.
- instead of the "find" command
- do a "man locate"
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, 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.
>
> Kent
>
> > which has been really useful. I just run it from the top of my htdocs
> > directory and it goes through all the subdirectories. Basically it finds
> > any pages that my ad banner code is messed up on. Now I'd like to be able
> > to find any file on my web directory that _doesn't_ have a certain phrase
> > in it. All of my web pages should have ad banner code that runs from a
> > script called getad.cgi Maybe find isn't the right command for this
> > task, but I want to find any page that has a .htm* extension that does not
> > contain the phrase getad.cgi in htdocs or any subdirectory under it.
> > Anyone have any pointers to help me get started...
> >
> > Jerry
> >
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