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# 8  
Old 08-19-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by smoofy
Exactly. Find does not consider content of the files at all. It just merely finds a file accordingly to condition. In this case we have no condition given so every file would do and for every one of them it runs that grep. -i switch is telling it not to care about case sensivitivity and -l just prints every file name that contains given string. Is that what you were looking for?
Ok Thanks.
So ican execute your command any path and it will give all the file names?


Your code is not working actually.
Its not fetching the files that i expect.Plus i want to restrict my search to .sh files only.
Last edited by rafa_fed2; 08-19-2013 at 10:39 AM..
# 9  
Old 08-19-2013
Yes. Consider main part of the command:
Code:
find /

You can try and run it. Slash is pointing to the location you would like to start your search from so no matter where you are it will always start searching from the root directory.
# 10  
Old 08-19-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by smoofy
Yes. Consider main part of the command:
Code:
find /

You can try and run it. Slash is pointing to the location you would like to start your search from so no matter where you are it will always start searching from the root directory.
i want to restrict my search to .sh files only.
How can i do that?
# 11  
Old 08-19-2013
just add the condition:
Code:
find / -iname "*.sh"

there is difference between -name and -iname switch. As we were talking before, iname is case insensitive.
# 12  
Old 08-19-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by smoofy
just add the condition:
Code:
find / -iname "*.sh"

there is difference between -name and -iname switch. As we were talking before, iname is case insensitive.

You mean this?

Code:
find / -iname "*.sh" -exec grep -l -i "word_to_search" '{}' ';'

Please post the full command
# 13  
Old 08-19-2013
AFAIR it should work on Solaris as well

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Quote:
Please post the full command
The one you posted should be correct. I do not have solaris here to try but on linux it works. I have copy-pasted that.
# 14  
Old 08-19-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by smoofy
AFAIR it should work on Solaris as well
Hi
It throws an error


Code:
find / -iname "*.sh" -exec grep -l -i "word_to_search" '{}' ';'
find: bad option -iname
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
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