| Posted by StandupMedia, 01-11-2010, 03:33 PM | | Hi,
I have fogotten the command that will search all files in the /home directory for a word i am looking for and save the list of files that has it in in a text file on the server.
Can anyone help me with this please?
Thank you in advance.
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| Posted by DigitalLinx, 01-11-2010, 03:40 PM | | To find a file name.
If you want to search the files containing a word
Will take a while to finish depending on the amount of files. For case insensitive grep use grep -iR rather than grep -R.
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| Posted by StandupMedia, 01-11-2010, 04:48 PM | | yea i know that but whats the code to save the result in a text file?
Thats what im after as i can not remember that part.
Thanks
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| Posted by DigitalLinx, 01-11-2010, 04:50 PM | |
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| Posted by Beast5, 01-11-2010, 05:45 PM | | a faster method to search files, is to relay on the locate database.
run one time the command " updatedb " , the system will hang a bit and create a search database.
after your database is created, simply use the command
where " myfiles" is the name of what you are looking for.
in order to create a file with a list of matches, you can use output redirection,
simply add
> results.txt
your command will look like this:
this will be much faster the next time you search for a file ( considering the database is already created ).
:-)
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| Posted by LeaTrueman, 01-12-2010, 01:04 AM | | here you need to search for a word in all your files under /home folder. For this , please use grep command. If you want to search the word "common" in all your files,
grep -ir common /home >> /home/testfile
hope this command helps you.
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| Posted by ianeeshps, 01-12-2010, 03:13 AM | | locate finds the results from a database. It will not give last createated data..........you need to run updatedb if u need more accurate result for locate.............apart from this locate is really fast I agree with that
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| Posted by LeaTrueman, 01-12-2010, 05:14 AM | | Hello,
locate and find command will not search for a word inside a file. It will give only the filenames which contains the word in its name.
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| Posted by madaboutlinux, 01-12-2010, 05:44 AM | | Use the following command, it's much faster:
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