check files for embedded code.

[Nobody's Hero]

Im trying to find a way to check a folder that contains 100 directories and 170,000 files, approx, it changes alot.

I want to cat the file and grep for the word "include" and then list the file so I can see the permissions.
Is the best way to do a ls -1 at the root folder, cat every file and grep for 'include' ?
Then Im lost on how to display the file permissions of that file if it finds the word 'include'. stuck...

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Something like this should work:

cd /somedir
find . -type f >> filelist

for FILE in $(< filelist)
do
grep -iq include ${FILE} && ls -l ${FILE}
done


The above will create your list of files, then the 'for' loop will loop through those files one at a time, look for 'include' in the file and if it finds it, do an 'ls -l' on the file.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Patrick's solution is an excellent one. I would change:

# find . -type f >> filelist

...to:

# find . -type f > filelist

...however, so that multiple invocations of the script don't mix new results into old ones.

Remember that if you have multiple directories to search you can stack them like:

# find /home /usr/local . -type f -print

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

>Patrick: for FILE in $(< filelist)

Hmm, it appears this scheme isn't limited to ARG_MAX bytes, about 2 Mb. I've just done 65 Mb.

If you have more files than this, you'll need to use xargs or while:
find . -type f | while read FILE; do
grep -iq include ${FILE} && ls -l ${FILE}
done

Also if you don't want to find "included", you can add "-w" to the grep.