[GLLUG] File search help

[Chick Tower]

If this metadata is recorded in the files, Stan, and it's a text string, 
grep should be able to find it.  The strings utility might be needed to 
strip the text strings out of Word documents or other formats, although 
I don't think it works well on .docx files.  See "man grep" and "man 
strings" for more info.

Do you need to do more than just find and list the files?


                                Chick

On 03/04/2012 09:13 PM, Stanley Mortel wrote:
> I need to be able to search the metadata of files and find all that are
> owned/authored by Computer Associates. I'm hoping this is possible, but
> I haven't a clue how to proceed. Google hasn't turned up anything useful
> (yet).
>
> I've seen some rather complex scripts to do this under Windows. Being
> able to do it in Windows would be OK, but I'd rather do it in Linux.
>
> Any ideas?