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Old 06-14-2009
A problem with a few UNIX commands
Hi guys ,
I'm new in UNIX and Linux ,and would appreciate your help (very) with the following questions .
1. how can I display all the files in the /home subdirectory tree usnig find and file . I'm supposed to do this in TWO different ways

2.using grep ,I need to isolate the line int /etc/passwd that contains my loign details .
how can I do that ? I've tried to use cat /etc/passwd to display its content and I can see that it has some lines containing the word "USER"
but I can't figure out a way to use grep in order to isolate the lines .
any hint ?

3.using find and grep and sort , I need to display a sorted list of all the files int /home subdirectory tree that contain the word hello inside them .
I tried something like : grep hello 'find "*.txt" -print' ,but it doesn't work.

thanks in advance guys .
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Old 06-14-2009
this sounds like homework problem.
read man page on find grep and sort.
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Old 06-14-2009
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