And on a related note, here's a script that let's me look for contents. It's
kind of clunky, but for what it's worth:
# grepit - look through files for matching string & display
# make sure the string stays together
pattern=\"$1\"
# check for arguments
if [ "$1" ]; then
a=a
else
echo usage: grepit search_string [starting_directory]
exit
fi
# help
case "$1" in
-help | -h | -HELP ) echo usage: grepit search_string
[starting_directory]; exit ;;
esac
# set directory (default to current)
if [ $2 ]; then
cd $2
echo starting in directory: $2
else
echo "starting in current directory: `pwd`"
fi
eval "find . -type f -exec grep --with-filename --ignore-case -e $pattern {}
\;" | less
Joe D. Trent
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Lubbock, Texas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe D. Trent" <jtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Command to find execute file
> I can never remember all the right commands to find so I wrote a script
that
> I put in the path somewhere like /usr/bin:
>
> # findit - find file name and print
>
> # check for arguments
> if [ $1 ]; then
> a=a
> else
> echo usage: findit search_string [starting_directory]
> exit
> fi
>
> # help
> case $1 in
> -help | -h | -HELP ) echo usage: findit search_string
> [starting_directory]; exit ;;
> esac
>
> # set directory (default to current)
> if [ $2 ]; then
> cd $2
> echo starting in directory: $2
> else
> echo "starting in current directory: `pwd`"
> fi
>
> find . -iname $1 -print | more
>
>
>
> I'm not much of a script writer, so there's probably a cleaner way to do
it,
> but it does what I need. It is kind of slow, I'm glad to learn the
"locate"
> command.
>
> Joe D. Trent
> Bigham Brothers, Inc.
> Lubbock, Texas
>
> Toll Free (U.S.): (800) 692-4449
> (806) 745-0384
> jtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.bighambrothers.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hattie Rouge" <redhat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:00 PM
> Subject: RE: Command to find execute file
>
>
> > FYI
> >
> > Commands like 'type' or 'which' or 'where' will search the PATH variable
> > for a file. Since this is supposed to be only executables, it is
> > usually termed "search for executables" but it finds links to executable
> > files so I don't think its that smart. I think it will find any
> > matching file in the PATH.
> >
> > Commands like 'find' actually walk the directory hierarchy looking for
> > files so you can search all the disks if you want. If you have
> > permissions for it. And it can be very slow to walk a large set of
> > disks on a busy server.
> >
> > Last thing:
> >
> > find / -name *evolution*
> >
> > will not always work because in some cases the shell will see the splat
> > (asterisk) and use it up instead of passing it on to the find program.
> > Plus all the non-Linux Unices I've worked with don't assume a print
> > sub-command. So the more general purpose way to do this search is to
> > escape any special characters you use just in case and explicitly
> > request output. So the above turns into:
> >
> > find / -name \*evolution\* -print
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > Hattie Rouge
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stéphan Hemmert
> > > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:07 AM
> > > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: Command to find execute file
> > >
> > >
> > > also another way to find a file:
> > > find / -name *evolution*
> > >
> > > will scan the whole filesystem to find files which name contains
> > > evolution ( can be pretty long)
> > >
> > > k.
> > >
> > > Stephen Liu wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hi all folks
> > > >
> > > >What command line will be used to find the execute file of a
> > > software,
> > > >e.g.
> > > >
> > > >/usr/bin/evolution
> > > >
> > > >the execute file of Ximian Evolution is under /usr/bin/ How
> > > to locate
> > > >it.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > >B.Regards
> > > >Stephen Liu
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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