Hi Friends,
How can I search all files in all slices on a unix system for a particular string within the file.
e.g search string 'oracle'
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi all,
Lets say I have 3 files a.txt and b.txt and c.txt.
a.txt has the following text
====================
apple is good for health
b.txt has the following text
====================
apple is pomme in french
c.txt has the following text
====================
orange has citric acid... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I want an one line command that brings me back all the files in a folder that contain 4 specific words anywhere inside them.
I want to use find,xargs and grep. for example i know for one word the command would be:
find . | xargs grep 'Word1'
But i don't know for 4 specific words... (13 Replies)
I have a text file with following content (3 lines)
filename : output.txt
first line:12/12/2008
second line:12/12/2008
third line:Y
I would like to know how we can replace 'Y' with 'N' in the 3rd line keeping 1st and 2nd lines same as what it was before.
I tried using cat output.txt... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I want to search the content of all the files (of a particular type like .txt)
in a directory for a specific string pattern. Can anyone help me?
Thanks (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I was exploring find command and came across -prune option which would exclude search in a mention subdirectory.
My quesry is to search all files more that 100 MB size but exclude search in a subdirectory.
I am using below command,but somehow it is not working.
Can anybody help me... (6 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I'm a newbie here. I'm working on a ksh script on Solaris 5.10 and have a question. I'm trying to search for a word line by line in a log file, and grab the text right after it inside quotes, and assign that to a variable.
For example, each line in the log will look something... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to do the following:
grep -l <pattern> <files to be searched for>
In <files to be searched for> , all files should of some specific date like "Apr 8" not all files in current directory. I just to search within files Apr 8 files so that it won't search in entire list of... (2 Replies)
perl -pi -e 's/\x00/\x0d\x0a/g' `grep -l $'GS' filelist`
This isn't working :confused:, it's not pulling the files that contain the regex. Please help me rewrite this :wall:.
Ideally for this to work on 9K of 20K files in the directory, I've tried this but I don't know enough about awk... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
Your help on the below requirement is highly appreciated.
I am building a program which should pick the file from a source directory and place them into target directory. While selecting the file in source it should look for some pattern in the file name.
Ex:
File Name 1:... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: bharath561989
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
mdfind
mdfind(1) BSD General Commands Manual mdfind(1)NAME
mdfind -- finds files matching a given query
SYNOPSIS
mdfind [-live] [-count] [-onlyin directory] [-name fileName] query
DESCRIPTION
The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. The query can be a
string or a query expression.
The following options are available:
-0 Prints an ASCII NUL character after each result path. This is useful when used in conjunction with xargs -0.
-live Causes the mdfind command to provide live-updates to the number of files matching the query. When an update causes the query
results to change the number of matches is updated. The find can be cancelled by typing ctrl-C.
-count Causes the mdfind command to output the total number of matches, instead of the path to the matching items.
-onlyin dir
Limit the scope of the search to the directory specified.
-name fileName
Searches for matching file names only.
-literal Force the provided query string to be taken as a literal query string, without interpretation.
-interpret Force the provided query string to be interpreted as if the user had typed the string into the Spotlight menu. For example, the
string "search" would produce the following query string:
(* = search* cdw || kMDItemTextContent = search* cdw)
EXAMPLES
The following examples are shown as given to the shell.
This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "image":
mdfind image
This returns all files that contain "MyFavoriteAuthor" in the kMDItemAuthor metadata attribute:
mdfind "kMDItemAuthor == '*MyFavoriteAuthor*'"
This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "skateboard". The find continues to run after gathering the
initial results, providing a count of the number of files that match the query.
mdfind -live skateboard
To get a list of the available attributes for use in constructing queries, see mdimport(1), particularly the -X switch.
SEE ALSO mdimport(1), mdls(1), mdutil(1), xargs(1)Mac OS X June 10, 2004 Mac OS X