[GLLUG] File search help

[STeve Andre']

Don't forget about file(1).  If you can teach /etc/magic (your opsys may
vary), about the metadata, then it could tell you whats what.

Something like

      cd dir
      find . -type f -exec file {} \;

would run file on every file in dir and beneath.

Strings works too, but it harder.  A

    strings -12 file

would print out only the readable strings longer than 12 chars,
which helps, but file is better.

--STeve Andre'

On 03/04/12 22:32, Chick Tower wrote:
> 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?
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