If we are using the Linux operating system first think we will do with the command line console apart from the Simple operation is Searching the File So We first Start with the various commands we can use and Finally end with the combination of the Different Commands.So lets Starts and be loaded with the powerful commands.
Command for Powerful Searching1. FIND COMMAND-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------find / -name gameLooks for a file named "game" starting at the root directory (searching all directories including mounted filesystems).
The `-name' option makes the search case sensitive.You can use the `-iname' option to find something regardless of case. find /usr -name *statFind every file under the directory /usr ending in "stat".
find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -fFind files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them. Note that this will work incorrectly if there are any filenames containing newlines, single or double quotes, or spaces.
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ind /var/spool -mtime +60Find every file under the directory /var/spool that was modified more than 60 days ago.
find /home -user joeFind every file under the directory /home owned by the user joe.
find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -fFind files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them, processing filenames in such a way that file or directory names containing single or double quotes, spaces or newlines are correctly handled. The -name test comes before the -type test in order to avoid having to call stat(2) on every file.
find . -type f -exec file '{}' \;Runs `file' on every file in or below the current directory. Notice that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them from interpretation as shell script punctuation. The semicolon is similarly protected by the use of a backslash, though ';' could have been used in that case also.
find / \( -perm -4000 -fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\n' \), \ \( -size +100M -fprintf /root/big.txt '%-10s %p\n' \)Traverse the filesystem just once, listing setuid files and directories into /root/suid.txt and large files into /root/big.txt.
find $HOME -mtime 0Search for files in your home directory which have been modified in the last twenty-four hours. This command works this way because the time since each file was last modified is divided by 24 hours and any remainder is discarded. That means that to match -mtime 0, a file will have to have a modification in the past which is less than 24 hours ago.
find . -perm 664Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner, and group, but which other users can read but not write to. Files which meet these criteria but have other permissions bits set (for example if someone can execute the file) will not be matched.
find . -perm -664Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner and group, and which other users can read, without regard to the presence of any extra permission bits (for example the executable bit). This will match a file which has mode 0777, for example.
find . -perm /222Search for files which are writable by somebody (their owner, or their group, or anybody else).
find . -perm /220 find . -perm /u+w,g+w find . -perm /u=w,g=wAll three of these commands do the same thing, but the first one uses the octal representation of the file mode, and the other two use the symbolic form. These commands all search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group. The files don't have to be writable by both the owner and group to be matched; either will do.
find . -perm -220 find . -perm -g+w,u+wBoth these commands do the same thing; search for files which are writable by both their owner and their group.
find . -perm -444 -perm /222 ! -perm /111 find . -perm -a+r -perm /a+w ! -perm /a+xThese two commands both search for files that are readable for everybody (-perm -444 or -perm -a+r), have at least on write bit set (-perm /222 or -perm /a+w) but are not executable for anybody (! -perm /111 and ! -perm /a+x respectively)
2. GREP COMMAND-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Small Introductiongrep searches the input files for lines containing a match to a given pattern list. When it finds a match in a line, it copies the line to standard output (by default), or whatever other sort of output you have requested with options.
grep "keyword" filenamesearch for the Keyword in the filename
grep "keyword" filename | grep -v "non-keyword"the ‘-v’ here will display those keyword which don’t match with “non-keyword”.
For example, if you have a file, abc.txt, with this contents:
testing, 12345
#testing , this the wrong code
testing 3456
testing, 452345
testing, 652345
ates, 953645
btest 452345
#testing , this wrong code
#testing , this wrong code
#testing , this the wrong code
and you want to grep a “testing” keyword but not those staring with “#”:grep testing abc.txt | grep -v #testingand the result will be:
testing, 12345
testing 3456
testing, 452345
testing, 652345 grep -R "192.168.1.5" *Use grep recursively You can search recursively i.e. read all files under each directory for a string "192.168.1.5"
grep -in test abc.txt-i for ignore case while searching
-n for how the line number in the output
So in combination we can write as -in
3. COMBINATION OF TWO COMMANDS---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------find . -type f -exec grep -qi “foo” {} \; -printAs an addition a very handy combination of find and grep I use almost every day: find a string inside a filename.
find . -type f -iname “*foo*”where you can use patterns with wildcards vs. more complicated but more powerful
find . -type f -exec grep -qi “…regexp…” {} \; -printas people often do not need regular expressions and the first is more easy to remember and type.
find . -type f -exec grep -il 'foo' {} \;
