Searching all files in a directory

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All

I need to figure out the quickest way to search an entire directory (/etc/lp/interface/model.orig) searching each and every file for which printers listed here have Banner="yes" as part of their file.

Can someone provide me a quick and dirty search command to do this?

Thanks all.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Frank

#cat * |grep -i banner |grep yes

Works for me. I don't know this is the best way or not.

Sachin

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try this:

# cd /etc/lp/interface/model.orig
# find . -depth -exec grep -l 'Banner=yes' {} \;

This will list you the name of the file which have the specific pattern.

HTH,
Shiju

[harry d brown jr]

find /etc/lp/interface/model.orig -type f -exec grep -l "Banner=\"yes\"" {} \;

live free or die
harry

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Shiju & Harry

What is the purpose of the {}\ and putting the \yes\ with the \ in the command?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

use GNU grep

# grep -r -a 'Banner="yes"' /etc/lp/interface/model.orig

[pap]

Hi,
You can do following :

1. cd /etc/lp/interface/model.orig

2. enter following command

grep \banner\=\"yes\" *

It will serve your purpose.

Thanks,
-Piyush.

[SHABU KHAN]

Frank,

You could do this:
This will search recursively through all files in all subdirectories and will print the files which has that string on stdout.

The key here is /dev/null, this will list the files before the match.

find -name "*" -exec grep "Banner=yes" /dev/null {} \;

The following will only grep text files (this way you don't get junk character on the screen as a result of grepping binaries)

grep "Banner=yes" `find -name "*" -exec file {} \; | grep text | awk -F: '{print $1}`

Hope this helps !

-Shabu

[Helen French]

Hi Frank,

Check the man pages of 'find' command. That will give you an explanation.

syntax is: -exec cmd

{} and \; should be used along with -exec option. {} replaces any command arguments by the current path. The end of cmd must be punctuated by a semicolon (;).

The other \" tells the command to consider " as a normal character.

HTH,
Shiju

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Thanks all Problem was resolved. All of your responses were helpful. Enjoy the points thnx for the knowledge.

FG.