search my harddisk - which command ???
 

Hello!

I want to search through my hardrive...
I always thought this is done with grep, but the syyntax I used doesn't do what I want:

grep -r "*.html" ./

I also tried grep -r --include="*.html" ./

didn't worked either...

how do I tell grep to don't search the whole file but just the names of the files in a directory... ?

EDIT:
Ok, I found out that the command find should help... but also a find ./ "*.html.pdf" for example showed me all different files that just end with html or pdf...strange behaviour...
maybe find ./ *.html | grep .pdf could help, but isn't there a possibility to make it with grep alone??

# find / -name <filename>

Regards

Shmonkey

To find a file use find:
This command would search from the path you are at the moment (that is there is a ".", but it could be any path). The "-name" would search for a patron in a name. So the *.html means that we would search for all files ending with .html .
The grep command is use to pick a line with an specifc patron. For example you can search with grep using a pipe from ls (I guess you try it)
The "path" could be any path.

Regards,

Rafael

thx very much, the find-command seems to work fine (not so the ls -R command...doesn't matter now...)

Is it also possible to redirect this output to the rm-command ?

find . -name *.html | rm

doesn't work....

It would be:

find . -name *.html | xargs rm

-twantrd

hi

use command locate or slocate

for mre info try out man locate