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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Grep within find command Post 302829637 by vbe on Friday 5th of July 2013 10:54:19 AM
Old 07-05-2013
What are you looking for - for what purpose? Because if its a variable you want to see if set anywhere meaning you are looking for configuration files ( = ascii ) then avoiding binaries is wise... then if you have no reason to search in the RDBMS e.g. oracle files systems then, you dont search there also, if this variable is something system, then it must be in / or /usr meaning you have only 2 filesystem to parse and not that big if correctly written (search by filesystem...) because a find parsing from / everywhere on a big system can take quite some time and resource...
The more you give use information on what you are looking for (or/and why), more we can target the find you need...
 

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suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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