[olug] Unix Tip: USE DU TO FIND FILES

[David Walker]

the command "du -a |grep *.txt" did not work for me
it seems to pipe the output of "du -a" into "grep *.txt" 
but "grep *.txt" will expand to 
"grep file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt" which will 
search for the string "file1.txt" in file2.txt and in file3.txt

I think the desired result is achieved with
du -a|grep "\.txt\$"

If you just want the current directory you can use bash's filename expansion 
with one of several commands

echo *.txt 
ls -l *.txt
du *.txt





On Sunday 20 April 2003 02:23 pm, Unix Guru Universe wrote:
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> USE DU TO FIND FILES
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> Normally:
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> find . -name *.txt -print
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> is the command to find a file.
> But you can locate find more
> efficiently using du and grep
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> Use:
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> du -a |grep *.txt
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> This will locate all the files
> with the extension .txt in the
> current directory.
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