Dear all,

Facing another problem. One of the users had kindly taught me the usage of -perm and it does help me alot.. well I have another problem here.

Locate all ordinary files within your Intra-group directory that have the pattern of SPA in their contents and view their contents one by one after confirmation.

As I know, it could begin like this(assume that I am in my Intra-group directory):
$find . -type f ( to find ordinary files)

AND
...-ok cat {} \; (to confirm to view the contents)

BUT to to find the files that have pattern of SPA in the contents.. am scratching head to think of the solution. Please help.

Student,
Siow Wei

find . -type f -name "*SPA*"

if you're searching for the contents in the file try this:

find . -type f | xargs grep "string_to_search_for"

the dot above is where you want to begin the search from...for example if you want to find all files that have the word "rules" beginning from /export, you'll type

find /export -type f | xargs grep "rules"

Also you might try grep -l which lists the file name only, rather than listing all the matching lines.

An alternative to xargs is to nest commands e.g:

grep -l 'SPA' $(find path -type f)

One advantage of the ksh $() syntax (as opposed to sh's ``) is you can nest that again e.g:

vi $(grep -l 'SPA' $(find path -type f) )