Search files created or changed within 10 days

find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10

View only lines that contain the word “string”

sed -n '/string/p'

Search string “test_text” at directory ‘/var/log’ and below

grep test_text -R /var/log/*

Recursively check a folder to find the given text using grep

grep -R "text" *

Search for a specific text in a folder using grep

grep "fetchFeedPacksCustomize()" *.js

[tags]grep,search,text,folder[/tags]

The search that limits the results to just directory listings…

intitle:”index.of” inanchor:”Last Modified” inanchor:”Description” inanchor:”Parent Directory” -filetype:php -filetype:asp -filetype:htm -filetype:html -inurl:”index.of” search.string

[tags]google,search,directory,listing,apache,folder,power[/tags]

Use find and grep to search for a specific text in a directory. In this example, we search for files which uses the PHP short tag - <?

find -name '*.php' -exec grep '<?[^p\=]' {} \;

Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux. It is based on the very strong Xapian backend, for which it provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration, QT graphical interface.

su -
[Enter Password]
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://www.xapian.org/RPM/xapian.repo
yum install xapian-omega xapian-bindings-php xapian-bindings-python xapian-bindings-tcl8

cd ~
wget http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/recoll-1.8.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf recoll-1.8.1.tar.gz
cd recoll-1.8.1
./configure
make
make install

[tags]recoll,software,install,linux,command,cli,search,application,beagle[/tags]