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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting System-wide search Post 302998341 by wbport on Tuesday 30th of May 2017 02:02:44 PM
Old 05-30-2017
System-wide search
When looking for wherever a program or a filename appears in the system, a short scrip is "findinner" which another script calls with a long parameter list consisting of path names ending with ".sh" or ".menu". "findinner" looks like this:
Code:
# If not .savenn file, show name and result of grep.
#
for i in "$@"
do
  echo $i |grep -q 'save[01][0-9]'
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]
  then
    echo "<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< $i >>>>>>>>>>>"
    grep HardCodedSearchItem $i
  fi
done

Is there a way to not have to modify "findinner" every time it is used? I would prefer to leave the scripts alone and just provide the search term as a parameter.

Is there any way to do this? TIA.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

nodesave

NODESAVE(8)						   Linux System Managers Manual 					       NODESAVE(8)

NAME

       nodesave - Saves NET/ROM routing information

SYNOPSIS

       nodesave [-p path] [-v] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       Nodesave  saves	the contents of the /proc filesystem entries for the NET/ROM routing tables. The output of the program is in the form of a
       Bourne shell script that calls nrparms(8) to recreate the NET/ROM routing information. If no filename is given on  the  command	line,  the
       program writes the script to stdout.

       Typically  nodesave  would  be  used  when  taking  a system off-air so that the NET/ROM routing may be quickly restored when the system is
       brought back on-line.

OPTIONS

       -p path	 Set the path to the nrparms binary. This only affects the output of the program. Default is /usr/sbin.

       -v	 Display the version.

FILES

       /proc/net/nr_neigh
       /proc/net/nr_nodes

SEE ALSO

       netrom(4), netromd(8), nrparms(8).

AUTHOR

       Tomi Manninen OH2BNS <oh2bns@sral.fi>

Linux								    4 July 1999 						       NODESAVE(8)
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