UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

im not 100% sure i understand.. but you can define a name in the find command too, i.e.

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.sh" -exec grep -l sqlplus.*\@ {} \;

that would look for all files are named *.sh

or, if you did the find, and piped it into a file like so

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find . -type f -name "*.sh" -exec grep -l sqlplus.*\@ {} \; > myfile.txt

then editted myfile.txt, removed all the files you did NOT want to change, then used the myfile.txt in the for/loop... so instead of using

Code:

for file in $(find . -type f -exec grep -l sqlplus.*\@ {} \;); do

use

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for file in $(cat myfile.txt); do

=)

You're surely right about what am i think about.
by making "myfile.txt", i clearly now and it will be more easy to trackdown files. but you have give me the idea, but i'm quite not confident if it could be used for the whole scripts in this AIX box within many users.

But surely i can figured it out.

thanks again.

Regards,
Helmi