find help

[Anthony khan]

Hi All,

I know its very easy to get but when i run the following command its take forever... what I want is to find all the files having this line CN=/usr/local/ias_prod451 so I can change to new path, i am running

find . -exec grep -l 'CN=/usr/local/ias_prod451' {} \;

Any suggestion what i'm doing wrong

[Mark Greene_1]

try this:

find . -type f -exec grep -l 'CN=/usr/local/ias_prod451' {} \;

if you have nfs files systems you want to skip (which may be what is taking so long), add this:

find . -type f ! -fsonly NFS -exec grep -l 'CN=/usr/local/ias_prod451' {} \;

HTH
mark

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Anthony,

What's your PWD when you run this. Limit the start to ONLY where you have iPlanet App Server installed.

Also if your vxfs FS usage is high in the FS(s) being searched & you have OnLineJFS, a defrag can zip the search along a little.

HTH,
Jeff

[Darrell Allen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This thread has some interesting ideas concerning searching for a string in text files:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd19e3fa720f3d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

The command which worked best for me was:
find / -type f -exec grep -l 'CN=/usr/local/ias_prod451' {} \; | xargs file | grep text | awk -F: '{print $1}'

Darrell

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Anthony,

I always try and avoid -exec, as it generates one process for each file. With xargs, it will process as many files as it can fit in one command, so something like the following may help:

find / -type f | xargs file | grep text | cut -d: -f 1 | xargs grep -l 'CN=/usr/local/ias_prod451'

Rgds, Robin