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Old 08-12-2008
Help needed with find command
Hi Guys,

Can someone help with this.

I have to find out a file name which calls the following sql script "abhishek_to_sdw.sql". In other words it contains a pattern like "abhishek_to_sdw.sql".

I have found out using "find" command that the file abhishek_to_sdw.sql is existing on the server.

Please help me in this.

Regards,
Abhi
# 2  
Old 08-12-2008
Your question is confusing. Can you please clarify ?
# 3  
Old 08-12-2008
I have a sql script (abhishek_to_sdw.sql) which is called by some unix shell script file. I dont know which shell script calls this sql script and I want to find that shell script.

Please help me how to find a file with a pattern. which in this case is "abhishek_to_sdw.sql".

Regards,
Abhi
# 4  
Old 08-12-2008
If your grep understands the -r flag, just use that.

Code:
fgrep -r abishek_to_sdw.sql /

Or with find,

Code:
find / -type f -exec fgrep abishek_to_sdw.sql /dev/null {} \;

Or with xargs,

Code:
find / -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 fgrep abishek_to_sdw.sql

The find -exec is the least efficient, but somewhat more portable than the others, which depend on GNU-like features. (You can avoid that in the xargs command by taking out the zeros.)
# 5  
Old 08-20-2008
You need to find all files and grep for your pattern " ". Once you get the result print it.
Code:
find . -type f | xargs grep "abishek_to_sdw.sql"

- nilesh
 
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