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I am trying to search my linux box for any PHP files located within ANY directory matching a certain name. So far nothing I've tried (nor any idea I've searched for) has worked as expected. I have tried a combination of find and grep...fail.

Please help?

try with the following example codes.

Code:

find /home/username -iname "*.php"

it will list all the php files

Code:

find /home/username -iname "a*.php"

it will list all the php file name starting with "a/A"

Code:

find -type d -iname "PHP*"

it will list all the directory names starting with php

I am looking for php files with random names, all ending in php (my server was hacked)

Therefore, the files I'm looking for are very random. However, one thing I'm specifically seeing a lot of is the following:

Code:

/img/random.php

or

Code:

/js/random.php

please note that there are 20+ sites, and MANY img folders, as they are mostly created by the exploit. So I need to search for any img folders (for example) containing any php files.

Now that it's the waking hours, wondering if anyone has any additional ideas I can try? Thanks!

search the php files in any img or js folders.

Code:

find / -type f -name "*.php" |egrep "/*img*/|/*js*/"