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Old 12-15-2009
find command question
Hi
I need to find the command ("find" , "grep" etc..) which would give me the full path and file name of all the files in the entire directory tree which contain the line "/bbsrc/doc/". What would be the most efficient way to do it? Thanks a lot for advice -A
# 2  
Old 12-15-2009
What did you try so far? No playing around with find yet?
# 3  
Old 12-15-2009
just type it like:
Code:
find /bbsrc/doc -name *.txt

Last edited by zaxxon; 12-17-2009 at 02:57 PM.. Reason: use code tags please, thank you
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Old 12-15-2009
I have tried the following command, but t returned no results:
Code:
bbiweb1 $ find . -type f -name "*/bbsrc/doc/*.html"
bbiweb1 $

But I know for sure it should be files with the above pattern either in directy or subdirectories....
Last edited by zaxxon; 12-17-2009 at 02:58 PM.. Reason: use code tags please, thank you
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Old 12-17-2009
Assuming that all such directories are under your current working directory.
One way is to generate the list of directories, then search them individually.
I have avoided any extensions to "find" syntax because we don't know what Operating System you use.


Code:
find . type d -print | grep '/bbsrc/doc/' |sort | while read DIR
do
        find "${DIR}" -type f name \*\.html -print
done

# 6  
Old 12-17-2009
Hi ,

Try this
Code:
find . -name '*.*' | xargs grep "/bbsrc/doc/"

Here "." means find from current directory.
You can use your directory from where you want to search.

Cheers,
Vijay.
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Old 12-17-2009
Thanks a lot to everybody.
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