Find question??

[teser]

I submitted this find command that searches most subdirectories. But it does not cover every subdirectory. I changed some subdirectory names from upper case to lower and that helped but it still didnt solve the problem. How can I get my find statement to search and get an awk response in EVERY subdirectory. Also the
permissions are the same in every directory so it isnt a permissions issue.

Here is my find statement:

find . -depth -name "*.html" -print |
xargs awk '/<TITLE>|<[Tt]itle>/ {printf(&quot;%s\t%s\n&quot;, FILENAME, $0)}'

 

[jbcamel]

How about trying:

ls -R *html

 

[MikeLacey]

that's weird - what do the directories that are being missed have in common? Mike
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[teser]

Some had upper case characters in the name such as &quot;DIR&quot; where the whole name was upper case. This find works on some directories covering all subdirectories, yet it won't all the way through on other subdirectories.

 

[MikeLacey]

I've not come across this behaviour of &quot;find&quot; before - so I'll tuck it away and bear it in mind.

Are there some filenames that contain control characters?

What version of UNIX are you running? Mike
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[mdet]

Hello Teser,
it's not clear to me why you use the &quot;-depth&quot; flag and also I can't see the necessity of piping find's output to xargs. I'm not familiar enough to xargs but what I learned from the man pages is the existence of some restrictions concerning the length of the resulting string.
I would do the job with the following find:
find . -type f -name &quot;*.html&quot; -exec awk '/<TITLE>|<[Tt]itle>/ {printf(&quot;%s\t%s\n&quot;, FILENAME, $0)} {} \;'

Regards
Michael.