[GLLUG] File search help

[Richard Houser]

File may get some, but you really need to use one of the file search
engines.  Otherwise, you will miss any that store data compressed, like
pdf, off, soccer, etc.  Or in unicode, etc.
On Mar 5, 2012 12:02 AM, "STeve Andre'" <andres at msu.edu> wrote:

> Doing a man magic should tell you about the format of /etc/magic.
>
> Fortunately, you can stare at the file to see how other formats are
> done, and then start adapting.  I did it once long ago for strange
> medical files.  Give it a couple of hours and you can get it.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
> On 03/04/12 23:44, Stanley Mortel wrote:
>
>> 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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