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The execution of the above commands will locate the perl binary and display the full path(s) to it. For example, to find a certain file in the whole server, it would be best to use an alternative command – whereis or which: whereis perl In some rare cases, find and grep may prove not useful. For example, the line below will only output configuration.php result: ls -la | grep configuration.php

#Grep only file time update#

Grep can also be used to filter the results from other commands. Does grep update a files access date/time Ive got a job that finds and removes trace files based upon an access time of more than seven days (Ive also tried a modify date). This will display the filenames containing the word “ database”, but will not actually list the line containing it. To only list the file names containing the string you are searching but omit the line containing it, you can use the -l argument: grep -l 'database' * This will make grep look recursively ( -r option) and provide the result in a human-readable format ( -H option) for the string “ database” in all (*) files under the current working directory.

If you don’t know which file contains the text, you can use: grep -r -H 'database' * The above command instructs grep to look for the string “ database” in the configuration.php file and display the containing line.

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For a full list it is recommended to check the manual pages by typing man grep.Īn example of using grep to find a certain text can be found below: grep 'database' configuration.php

Grep is a very powerful tool and accepts various command line arguments. This time, two lines that include the letters The are outputted, one of which. The command you should be using, in this case, is grep. Use grep to select lines from text files that match simple patterns. You can also search for a given text in the content of the files as well. Or if you want to filter only files modified in the last 2 days, you would need to use: find. If you would like to list only directories and leave all files out of the result: find.

If you are uncertain about the file name or would like to match a part of the name, you can use a wildcard pattern: find. This option is ignored if the filecodeset or pgmcodeset options (-W option) are specified.-b Precedes each matched line with its file block number. Find is a very powerful tool and accepts various arguments allowing you to specify the exact search term (i.e search by name, by type or even by modified time).įor example, to search for a file called myFile.txt under the current folder (and all subfolders), you would need to use the following command: find. grep accepts all the following options while egrep and fgrep accept all but the -E and -F options.-A num Displays num lines of trailing context after the lines are matched.-B Disables the automatic conversion of tagged files. In order to search for a file location, you can use the find command. SSH provides two different commands, which can be used to accomplish this. In some cases, you would need to find the location of a given file or to search for a certain text in all files under a directory.