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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Searching the file system Post 302119688 by LiquidChild on Thursday 31st of May 2007 09:29:54 AM
Old 05-31-2007
Searching the file system
Guys,

We have taken a copy of our live filesystem to use for testing, but they want to be sure that no contact can be made to any of the live servers etc, I told them the best way would be to have this handled at the firewall level etc, but it seems that not possible, so.... would it be possible/feasible to search the whole file system for certain strings, for example ftp, I know the following command:

Code:
find . -exec grep "searchTxt" '{}' \; -print

Could be used, but the issue is more that it brings back every occurence of the string, as you would expect, but say I search for ftp, it will bring back xxxxxftp, is there another way of checking for stuff like this, or checking the permissions on files, or taking some other approach to doing this?

Thanks
 

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