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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