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01-03-2013
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Full System Recursive Search for a String - Not Finishing
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grep -r -H "foobar" / > result to give all files that contain the string "foobar" Half way , its waiting for some thing and does not end Not Sure whats happening. Any help is much appreciated Thank you |
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01-03-2013
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find / -type f -exec grep -l foobar {} \;You have probably hit some character special file that has a readlock on it. You don't want to read tty files anyway. This returns the names of file with the string 'foobar' in them. |
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01-03-2013
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So any way to avoid it hitting files with readlock on it?
There should be some way to successfully search the entire filesystem for a string. Thanks Again |
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