Actually, you most definitely want to quote that glob, using "*.log" or '*.log' or \*.log. If unescaped, the shell expands that glob before the find command ever sees it. That command worked because there were no matches to *.log in the current directory, which from the looks of it is the top level /. When there are no matches, the shell leaves the pattern as is. Had there been one match, find would have been looking for a file with that specific name throughout the entire file hierarchy. Had there been multiple matches, the glob would've been expanded by the shell into a list and most likely would've lead to a find syntax error.
An illustrative example with sh tracing enabled (after `set -x`, each line beginning with a "+" is the command that the shell is actually executing):
Hello All,
I am somehow stumped with this ting.
'Find' will sure show me.. but I want only thepath of all the occurences of the file in any of the sub-dirs..
Any help will be sincerely appreciated.
thanx! (3 Replies)
Hey all.. This should be simple but stoopid here can't get head around it! I have many directories, say 100 each with many files inside. I need a script to traverse through the dirs, find most recent file in each dir and add it to a tar file.
I can find the files with something like
for... (1 Reply)
I want to find the most recent file containing ' NORESETLOGS"
I'm already here but, how to sort this now in a correct way ?
By the way, my version of find does not know about 'fprint'
find . -type f -exec grep -i " NORESETLOGS" {} \; -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -vi " RESETLOGS" (5 Replies)
Hi,
Here is my problem:
I try to write a script to find data in a file named "data" for exemple.
Let's say I am in the directory /x/y/z, there are several sub-directories in the "z" directory (each sub-directory has a file "data") and I am searching for the word "help".
So I use this... (9 Replies)
for x in `find /vmfs/volumes/v01tstn01a01/ -type d`; do find $x -name '*.vmx' > /dev/null || echo $x; done;
The goal of this is to find the subdirectories that do NOT contain a file with the extension of .vmx
Any help would be great! (6 Replies)
I'm having problems figuring out the process to find directories that DO NOT contain a certain file. I have a mp3 collection that all the album art is name "folder.jpg". Not all the albums have images. I need a way to find the albums/directories that do not contain "folder.jpg". I can find the... (2 Replies)
Hi
Need help for the following scenario.
I am having two directories /tmp/a and /tmp/b. /tmp/a again has subdirectories /tmp/a/aa and /tmp/a/ab.
I want to run a script from /tmp/b to search for a file user.lst in the folders /tmp/a/aa and /tmp/a/ab, if available, i want to make a file in... (3 Replies)
Very new to shell scripting. Not sure if my title is correct but I will try and explain.
Directory has 100+ files with this format, " ABCD_ABC_Abc_AB0126.abc ". When a new file gets created, the 16-19 characters in the file name gets incremented by 1. Ex...todays most recent file is... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I need to find the most recent files by their name from an X repertoire.
The problem is that the name of the files is of type:
POWERL10_20151203000.xml
POWERL10_20151203001.xml
POWERL10_20151202000.xml
FIXED VALUE_DATENNN.xml
NNN = Sequential number
I would need to recover the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: verita
4 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
doveadm-log
DOVEADM-LOG(1) Dovecot DOVEADM-LOG(1)NAME
doveadm-log - Locate, test or reopen Dovecot's log files
SYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] log errors
doveadm [-Dv] log find [directory]
doveadm [-Dv] log reopen
doveadm [-Dv] log test
DESCRIPTION
The doveadm log commands are used to locate and reopen the log files of dovecot(1). It's also possible to test the configured targets of
the *log_path settings.
OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1) options:
-D Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-v Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
COMMANDS
log errors
doveadm log errors
The log errors command is used to show the last - up to 1,000 - errors and warnings. If no output is generated, no errors have occurred
since the last start.
log find
doveadm log find [directory]
The log find command is used to show the location of the log files, to which dovecot(1) sends its log messages. If dovecot(1) logs its
messages through syslogd(8) and doveadm(1) could not find any log files, you can specify the directory where your syslogd writes its log
files.
log reopen
doveadm log reopen
This command causes doveadm to reopen all log files, configured in the log_path, info_log_path and debug_log_path settings. These settings
are configured in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf.
This is for example useful after manually rotating the log files.
log test
doveadm log test
This command causes doveadm to write the message "This is Dovecot's priority log (timestamp)" to the configured log files. The used prior-
ities are: debug, info, warning, error and fatal.
EXAMPLE
This example shows how to locate the log files used by dovecot(1).
doveadm log find
Looking for log files from /var/log
Debug: /var/log/dovecot.debug
Info: /var/log/mail.log
Warning: /var/log/mail.log
Error: /var/log/mail.log
Fatal: /var/log/mail.log
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is avail-
able at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO doveadm(1)Dovecot v2.1 2012-02-22 DOVEADM-LOG(1)