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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search file in the whole machine Post 303037473 by Corona688 on Friday 2nd of August 2019 11:41:11 AM
Old 08-02-2019
If you have locate installed, this should find it efficiently:
Code:
locate 'partoffilename'

If you don't, and really want to do a brute-force search of the entire system, bar nothing and nobody:
Code:
find / -name '*partoffilename*' 2>/dev/null

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:
Code:
find /home -name '*partoffilename*'

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rt-crontool(1)						     Request Tracker Reference						    rt-crontool(1)

NAME

       rt-crontool - Command-line interface to Request Tracker

SYNOPSIS

	   # find all active tickets in the queue 'general' and set their priority to 99 if they are overdue:
	   rt-crontool 
	     --search RT::Search::ActiveTicketsInQueue	--search-arg general 
	     --condition RT::Condition::Overdue 
	     --action RT::Action::SetPriority --action-arg 99 
	     --verbose

	   # Escalate tickets
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	       --search RT::Search::ActiveTicketsInQueue  --search-arg general 
	       --action RT::Action::EscalatePriority

DESCRIPTION

       This script is a tool to act on tickets from an external scheduling tool, such as cron.

       Security:

       This tool allows the user to run arbitrary perl modules from within RT. If this tool were setgid, a hostile local user could use this tool
       to gain administrative access to RT. It is incredibly important that nonprivileged users not be allowed to run this tool. It is suggested
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OPTIONS

       search
	   Specify the search module you want to use

       search-arg
	   An argument to pass to --search

       condition
	   Specify the condition module you want to use

       condition-arg
	   An argument to pass to --condition

       action
	   Specify the action module you want to use

       action-arg
	   An argument to pass to --action

       template
	   Specify name or id of template(s) you want to use

       transaction
	   Specify if you want to use either 'first', 'last' or 'all' transactions

       transaction-type
	   Specify the comma separated list of transactions' types you want to use

       log Adjust LogToScreen config option

       verbose
	   Output status updates to STDOUT

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