[GLLUG] File search help

Stanley Mortel mortel at cyber-nos.com
Sun Mar 4 23:44:36 EST 2012


That looks promising, but I don't know how to teach it about metadata.  
Gives me something to look into though.  Thanks.

On 03/04/2012 10:49 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
> 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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