Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:35:35PM -0700, Eric Shubes wrote:
> 
>>A handy little command to find all references to "tmp" in your cron 
>>directories is:
>>find /etc/cron* -name "*" -exec grep -H tmp {} \;
> 
> 
> To be pedantic, you can replace that with just:
> grep -r tmp /etc/cron*
> 
> If you're not using GNU grep (a grep that doesn't have the -r option),
> you'll probably want to use something like this instead:
> find /etc/cron* -type f |xargs grep tmp /dev/null
> You might need to include -print with find, depending on the OS.  I
> included "/dev/null" because non-GNU greps (to my knowlege) generally
> don't have -H, and this ensures that there are always at least two
> filenames on the command line, making grep print the filename.  (See
> xargs(1) for details about what it does.)
> 
> '-name "*"' is superfluous.  And depending on the quoting rules of your
> shell, the double-quotes will almost certainly mean that the * is
> interpreted by the shell instead of being passed along to find.  Use \*
> or '*' instead.
> 
> 
>>BL, it's not a good idea to put your files in /tmp. That's not what it's 
>>there for. /home is where the heart is. ;)
> 
> 
> There's no place like $HOME. :-)
> 
> 
> 
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> 
>  
Thanks for the tips Bill! xargs wasn't in my arsenal, but it is now.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

 
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