[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes: > 1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like > to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can > be done with a shell script (Bash) but I have know idea how. Can anyone > give me some pointers and or post a script ? ... TIA
use the command grep when ou want to grep ;-) man grep will you tell more about it. > 2: The purpose of the above question is to find a file that has a string > (IE search all the files on the hard drive for the string "foo" and list > the files that have foo in it) Now that I know what file has "foo" in it > I need to log all the programs that write to this file ? > eg. program foobar and program foobarx both write to text file > /usr/lib/cows I need to know what program is writing to that file and > when grep -n "foo" /* search root path grep -n "foo" /*/* the next deeper one and so on the option -n only listen the files containing "foo" dpkg -S foo listen all Packages that contains a file foo -> you hopefully know who is using the file (and with this command there's no need for the above grep) Hope it helps Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.debian.org/
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