Finding a particular word from a file in a server

[thendal]

Hi All!

I have a problem ,how i can find a file.If it has some hazadrous words which will affect my application running in the server.

For example if i need to find the files in the server having the name test.txt which has a word "test=hack" in the test.txt what is the command i have to use in the server.


Then i will import the command in a perl script in which it will sent me a alert mail stating this directory contains test.txt with the word "test=hack".

Thanks for any help

Thendal

 

[maxit]

I'm not much of a programmer with perl but if you are you can use snippets of code
from a simple search cgi that matt's script archive has at:

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/search.shtml

Though its a cgi program the same code could be utilized at command line level.
The simple search script would at least tell you where a file with search criteria
would exist. This script has a "@files" attribute so you can set a few things as
for directories to search and file extensions and so fourth and have it pushed into
a fileseach.txt to examine and also create more code to take care of it leaving the text
file as a log. well anyway something like that.

This also can be done using shell commands and setup a shell script using things like
find, grep, cat, cut umoung the few.

Maxit

 

[thendal]

Thanks matt ,I am exactly looking out some command in unix
like

find "this text" contain in the "file name" from /root/

if it returns some value then i will write perl script to send a alert mail.

Thank you very much maxit.

 

[Worthy]

The simplest way (maybe not the best) to do what you want is to use a very powerful adm. tool, the "find" command

Try : find /root -name <pattern you wanna match> -ls > file

And if you want to look for a specific pattern inside the test.txt file,

find /root -name <pattern> -print | xargs grep <pattern>

This will print as output the lines matched by the second pattern.

Hope it will help.

Worthy

 

[thendal]

Thanks worthy!

It works thank you very much ...

I excuted the command and try to get the output in a text file.(in order to process in a perl file so that i write a script according to the values i receive from the text file)

The command is

find /root -name test.txt -print | xargs grep danger

but the output is coming in one single line(/root/bla/bla/text:danger/root/bla/bla/text2:danger)

,Is there any way i can able to break the output

like
/root/bla/bla/text:danger
/root/bla/bla/text2:danger

adding a newline in every catch

Thanks



Thendal;-)

 

[thendal]

Thanks worthy!

It works thank you very much ...

I excuted the command and try to get the output in a text file.( so that i write a script according to the values i receive from the text file)

The command is

find /root -name test.txt -print | xargs grep danger

but the output is coming in one single line(/root/bla/bla/text:danger/root/bla/bla/text2:danger)

,Is there any way i can able to break the output

like
/root/bla/bla/text:danger
/root/bla/bla/text2:danger

adding a newline in every catch

Thanks



Thendal;-)

 

[Worthy]

Happy that it helped.

Keep on working on your problem. It seems that you did not exactly obtain the desired result.

If your file contains the following data

...
/root/bla/bla/text:danger
/root/bla/bla/text2:danger
...

the grep command will give you as output these two lines matched. What I'm saying is that you don't have to break the output. It must already be.

--
Worthy