Dear James, So many thanks for the comprehensive and professional reply. It was indeed helpful. Have a great day. Sam.
AOB Technologies 24 Giborey Israel St., P.O. Box 8169 New Industrial Zone, Netanya 42504 Israel Tel: +972 9 835 7679 Fax: +972 9 885 9046 http://www.aob.co.il ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: James Youngman To: AOB Technologies Ltd. Cc: bug-findutils (gnu.org) Linux Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:47 PM Subject: Re: Find command explanation On 7/2/06, AOB Technologies Ltd. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > When I type "find --help" at my RedHat Linux (model 2001 or so) I get all the syntax of the command with so many parameters. > Nevertheless, it is very hard to understand the proper use for a desired kind of result and some examples or further break-down explanation about the parameters would help a lot. Examples and more detailed explanations are int he documentation. This is available as ful Info documentation ("info find") or in a briefer form more suitable for quick reference as a manual page ("man find"). Both types of documentation include examples. > For example, the option -mount or -mmin are not explained and thus I don't know what would be their result. > > In particular, I'm looking for files containing certain text string (probably DOC files). Is there any specific format for this command to meet this requirement? No, that's not really the UNIX way of doing things. The UNIX paradigm is to have a set of tools that interoperate effectively. Each tool should do a small number of things, but do them well. The tools should be easy to combine to solve the overall problem. You might find it helpful to read a book on Unix, for example "Unix in a Nutshell" or an introduction to Linux. The tool designed for searching for strings in text files is called "grep". You might salso find "man intro" helpful. James. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/384 - Release Date: 10.07.2006 _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
