Word search

Alien_Hominid · 04-18-2006, 08:22 AM

I've just restored my rm'ed ext2 partition. Now I have about 1 million $Inode files. So I need a way how to identify which files I need to restore. I could find these files by searching for some word which I know they would include. So I tried: cat *|grep WORD but I got an error from cat: too many arguments or smth similar. Can anybody give me any suggestion?

Thanks in advance
It would be sad if I didn't recover them having gone so far.

File names go like this $Inode1 - $Inode1002324.

Ramark · 04-18-2006, 09:39 AM

grep WORD *

Alien_Hominid · 04-18-2006, 10:33 AM

As I said:

Code:

/usr/bin/grep: Argument list too long

mdarby · 04-18-2006, 11:45 AM

Code:

find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep WORD

Alien_Hominid · 04-19-2006, 12:53 AM

Thank you, mdarby. You have saved me from another 3 hours of desperate picoing.

mdarby · 04-19-2006, 06:52 AM

But of course. I'm quite the fan of xargs