Find some content
inside files and it will gives the files that content is available:
# find /usr/local/etc/ -type f-exec grep -l "00:C0:89:14:9F:6C"
{} \;
/usr/local/etc/dhcplog.txt
/usr/local/etc/subnetfiles/50.200.0.0-19-server2
/usr/local/etc/
:Location that you want to dind
Use “.” To find in current directory
Eg: # find . -type f -exec grep -l "00:C0:89:14:9F:6C"{} \;
00:C0:89:14:9F:6C: The phrase
that you want to find inside the file
-type type of file:
d - Directory
f - File
l - Link
# find/usr/local/etc/ -exec grep -ls 50.200.0 {} \;
/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/dhcplog.txt
/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf_subnet
/usr/local/etc/subnetfiles/50.200.0.0-19-server2
#
Search some files that
have not been accessed for a specific time period and removing those Files
The following command
is for removes all files in /home/bacup
direc-
tory named my.bac or *.log that have
not been accessed for a week:
# find /home/bacup \( -namemy.bac -o -name '*.log' \) \ -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;
Find all text files in the /user/local
directory using the command, the -print option is used to display the
results to standard out.
# find /user/local -name "*.txt"-print
/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWmozilla/save/pspool/SUNWmozilla/reloc/sfw/lib/mozilla/chrome/installed-chrome.txt
/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWlibusb/install/thirdpartylicensereadme.txt
Find files larger than 1
Gigabyte the commaand below may be used, notice unlike Linux, (Solaris 10 does
not support the M(Megabyte) or G(Gigabyte) options)
c option for bytes.
#find / -size +1000000000c –print
The -exec flag may be used to
apply a command to each of the files which have been found.
({}) represents the
name of each file found.
(\;)end of the command.
# find
/usr/local/etc/ -name "*.txt" -print -exec wc -l {} \;
Find the file named readme.txt and view the content:
#find / -name "readme.txt" -exec cat {} \;
