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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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