Re: A few questions
For question 1:
grep foo `cat name.of.file.with.list.in.that.file`
For question 2:
lsof /usr/lib/cows
This will show you which file is currently opening /usr/lib/cows.
Regards.
Paul
Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>
> hello
>
> As a somewhat unix/Linux newbie I have a few questions for this list:
>
> they are in no spesific order:
>
> 1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like
> to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can
> be done with a shell script (Bash) but I have know idea how. Can anyone
> give me some pointers and or post a script ? ... TIA
>
> 2: The purpose of the above question is to find a file that has a string
> (IE search all the files on the hard drive for the string "foo" and list
> the files that have foo in it) Now that I know what file has "foo" in it
> I need to log all the programs that write to this file ?
> eg. program foobar and program foobarx both write to text file
> /usr/lib/cows I need to know what program is writing to that file and
> when
>
> is there a way to acopmlish these things without jumping into a c program
> ...
>
> TIA
>
> -Have a good one
> -Kevin Poorman
>
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