Find command with an IP address as the search aurgment

swamprat · 11-01-2007, 03:53 PM

Hello all,

Looked at the man page for find but couldn't find an answer to this find question.

I want to search all files looking for the string 216.254.93.22.

I tried find / -name '216.254.93.22' -print and nothing comes up.

I'm sure this is wrong. Can anyone help me setting the find command up correctly to the his search?

Thanks.

complich8 · 11-01-2007, 04:03 PM

find looks at the filename (ie: "tell me which files are named this"), as opposed to examining the inside the file.

You're looking for grep. I recommend reading the man page for it, and paying attention to the "recursive" part

bigrigdriver · 11-01-2007, 04:14 PM

Quote:

ind / -name '216.254.93.22' -print

Should work if the name of the file is the URL number.

If the number is inside a file, modify your command:

Quote:

find / -type f | xargs grep '216\.254\.93\.22'

The reason for the backslashes in the URL is that, upon expansion, the shell may interpret the dots as wildcards for any single character(s). It's then necessary to *excape* the expansion problem by using the backslash to have the dot interpreted as a dot.

swamprat · 11-02-2007, 12:40 PM

Thanks bigrigdriver. Worked as advertised.