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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding my lost file by searching for words in it Post 302541355 by statichazard on Sunday 24th of July 2011 05:04:58 AM
Old 07-24-2011
Finding my lost file by searching for words in it
Got a question for you guys...I am searching through a public directory (that has tons of files) trying to find a file that I was working on a longggggg time ago. I can't remember what it is called, but I do remember the content. It should contains words like this:

Joe
Pulvo
botnet
zeus
command
control

There are several hundred files in this directory, so I was trying to figure out a command that will locate this file, which contains all of these words. I wanted to put these 6 words into a file using VI, and then use that file to find what I am looking for.

I know I could do:

Code:
grep -R -l 'String to find'

but I would rather use the file to make sure all of the words are in it. I think I need to write a short script so I can replace 'String to find' with an ambiguous term, which is my problem. Could I just use $n instead of 'String to find' and increment $n so it will move lines down each time, thus searching for a new word?

Since I tend to have organizational problems, it would be nice to have this script work for any input, so my goal is to not hard code specific words into the algorithm.

thanks
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

an

AN(6)								   Games Manual 							     AN(6)

NAME

       an - Anagram generator

SYNOPSIS

       an  [-w]  [-c  string]  [-d  dictionary] [-l number_words] [-m word_length] [-u string] [-n number_anagrams] [-h] [-v] [--words] [--contain
       string] [--dict dictionary] [--length number_words] [--minimum word_length]  [--used string] [--number  number_anagrams]  [--help]  [--ver-
       sion] PHRASE

DESCRIPTION

       an  finds  all  anagrams  which	can  be  made  from  the letters in PHRASE, using words in the specified dictionary. The default is to use
       /usr/share/dict/words.

OPTIONS

       -w, --words
	      Print words that the letters in PHRASE can make, then exit.

       -c, --contain string
	      Only print anagrams which contain string.

       -d, --dict dictionary
	      Use dictionary file to find words which the letters in PHRASE can make.

       -m, --minimum word_length
	      Only include word which are at least word_length long.

       -u, --used string
	      Considers that letters in string have already used when analyzing letters in PHRASE.  Like --contain but doesn't print out string.

       -l, --length number_words
	      Finds anagrams which have a maximum of number_words words in them.  This is very useful when number of anagrams which are output	is
	      large.

       -n, --number number_anagrams
	      Stops after finding number_anagrams anagrams.

       -h, --help
	      Print a usage message on standard output, then exit.

       -v, --version
	      Print version information on standard output, then exit.

EXAMPLE

       an -c imp 'Paul Martin'

       Finds anagrams for Paul Martin which contain the word imp.

AUTHOR

       Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>

THANKS

       Richard Jones (richard@deep-thought.org)
	 - Coding and algorithm design of original version.

       Julian Assange (proff@suburbia.net)
	 - Algorithm design of original version.

       Please note that the email addresses for Richard and Julian are from over ten years ago and probably no longer work.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) Paul Martin 2012. All rights reserved.

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