If you have locate installed, this should find it efficiently:
If you don't, and really want to do a brute-force search of the entire system, bar nothing and nobody:
The 2> because this is going to spew lots of errors when it blunders through areas it doesn't belong.
If you can narrow it down even the slightest bit, you can make it much faster:
Hi all,
I want to search the files in a remote machine for a particular string. The SSH command I wrote is giving an error even when the syntax is correct.
ssh user@hostmachine find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep "ARIVU" '{}' \;
The error it gives is find: missing argument to `-exec'
When the... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
URGENT - Please help me form a scipt for this:
I need the LATEST file from a dir on REMOTE machine to be SCP'd to a dir on local machine. (and I need to execute this from local server)
I know that the below cmd is used to find the LATEST file from a dir. But this command is not... (3 Replies)
Hi All..
Am new to Unix!!
Am creating a shell script in which a scenario is like i have transfer the output file from unix machine (Server) to local directory (Windows xp).
And also i have to transfer the input file from the local directory to Unix machine (Server)
Any help from you... (1 Reply)
I am a newbie and would like some help with the following -
Trying to search fileA for a string similar to -
AS11000022010 30.4 31.7 43.7 53.8 60.5 71.1 75.2 74.7 66.9 56.6 42.7 32.5 53.3
I then want to replace that string with a string from fileB - ... (5 Replies)
Hi ,
I have been trying to write a perl script to do this job. But i am not able to achieve the desired result. Below is my code.
my $current_value=12345;
my @users=("bob","ben","tom","harry");
open DBLIST,"<","/var/tmp/DBinfo";
my @input = <DBLIST>;
foreach (@users)
{
my... (11 Replies)
Hi Team,
I am new to unix, please help me in this.
I have a file named properties.
The content of the file is :
##Mobile props
east.url=https://qa.east.corp.com/prop/end
west.url=https://qa.west.corp.com/prop/end
south.url=https://qa.south.corp.com/prop/end... (2 Replies)
I have two files:
file 1:
hello.com neo.com,japan.com,example.com
news.net xyz.com, telecom.net, highlands.net, software.com
example2.com earth.net, abc.gov.uk
file 2:
neo.com
example.com
abc.gov.uk
file 2 are the search keys to search in file 1 if any of the search... (7 Replies)
I'm trying to find a way to search a range of similar words in a file. I tried using sed but can't get it right:sed 's/\(ca01\)*//'It only removes "ca01" but leaves the rest of the word. I still want the rest of the information on the lines just not these specific words listed below. Any... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a text file named file1.txt that is formatted like this:
001 , ID , 20000
002 , Name , Brandon
003 , Phone_Number , 616-234-1999
004 , SSNumber , 234-23-234
005 , Model , Toyota
007 , Engine ,V8
008 , GPS , OFF
and I have file2.txt formatted like this:
... (2 Replies)
Run a loop that will search for a file to thousand machine and know who owns the file
$ for i in abc{01..02}
> do
> echo -n $i
> ssh $i "sudo find / -name .ssh -exec ls -l {} \;|grep id"
> done
abc01-rw-------. 1 root root 1675 Nov 10 2018 id_rsa
abc01-rw-------. 1 root root 1675 Nov 14... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: invinzin21
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ftwhich
FTWHICH(1) General Commands Manual FTWHICH(1)NAME
ftwhich - fault tolerant search for a command name
SYNOPSIS
ftwhich [-#hIp][-t#] program_name
DESCRIPTION
ftwhich is a fault tolerant version of the which(1) command. ftwhich searches for a given program in all directories included in your PATH
environment variable and reports all files with a name that approximately matches the given program_name.
ftwhich achieves fault tolerance by calculating the so called Weighted Levenshtein Distance. The Levenshtein Distance is defined as the
minimum number of character insertions, deletions and replacements that transform a string A into a string B.
ftwhich is similar to the which command with the following differences:
- ftwhich is by default NOT case sensitive
- ftwhich is fault tolerant
- Some shells have a build in which command that will also search aliases. ftwhich can naturally not search for aliases as it does
not know about alias definitions.
- ftwhich lists all files that approximately match. The files first shown take preference over files of the same name printed later as
they are from directories listed earlier in the PATH.
- The level of fault tolerance can be adjusted by specifying the optional parameter tolerance. A tolerance of 0 specifies exact
match.
OPTIONS -h Prints help/usage information.
-I Do case sensitive search (default is case in-sensitive)
-p print the actual distance value in front of the found filename. This value is equal to the number of insertions, deletions and
replacements necessary to transform the name of the found program into the search key.
-# or -t#
Set the fault tolerance level to #. The fault tolerance level is an integer in the range 0-255. It specifies the maximum number of
errors permitted in finding the approximate match. The default tolerance is (strlen(searchpattern) - number of wildcards)/6 + 1
program_name
The program file to search for. '*' and '?' can be used as wildcards.
'?' denotes one single character.
'*' denotes an arbitrary number of characters.
The last argument to ftwhich is not parsed for options as the program needs at least one program_name argument. This means that ftwhich -x
will not complain about a wrong option but search for the program named -x.
EXAMPLE
Search for all programs like gcc in your PATH:
ftwhich gcc
This will e.g. find gcc or cc or CC ...
To find all files that start with any prefix and end in config and differ in 2 letters from the word config:
ftwhich -2 '*config'
To find all files that exactly start with the prefix if:
ftwhich -0 'if*'
To find all clock programs:
ftwhich -0 '*clock*'
BUGS
The wildcards '?' and '*' can not be escaped. These characters function always as wildcards. This is however not a big problem since there
is normally hardly any command that has these characters in its name.
AUTHOR
Guido Socher (guido@linuxfocus.org)
SEE ALSO whichman(1), ftff(1)Search utilities January 1999 FTWHICH(1)