topic Find files in Operating System - HP-UX

Find files

Kenn Chen — Wed, 06 Jun 2001 05:45:36 GMT

I would like to find all files which has content of "Hello" word inside the file.

Re: Find files

Wieslaw Krajewski — Wed, 06 Jun 2001 05:57:16 GMT

Hi,

Try

find / -exec file {} \; | grep text | grep Hello

But should remember that command file not always clasify well files.

Rgds.

Re: Find files

Laurent Paumier — Wed, 06 Jun 2001 06:45:25 GMT

find / -type f | xargs grep -l Hello

Re: Find files

federico_3 — Wed, 06 Jun 2001 07:14:13 GMT

The best solution could be:
find DIR -type f -exec grep -il "Hello" {} \;

Re: Find files

Laurent Paumier — Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:06:21 GMT

Hi federico,

Your command will exec a grep process for every file found. Whenever you can, use the xargs command which will exec the specified process passing it many files at once. One grep in 10000 files is by far more efficient than 10000 greps in one file...