Finding Code in PHP files
This will list all .php files that contain a certain string. Just replace {token} with whatever string you’re searching for. I use this when I have to automate figuring out which PHP files include other PHP files.
find ./ -name '*.php' | sed 's/^\(.*\)$/"\1"/g' | xargs grep -lF '{token}'
Handling file names with Spaces with find and xargs find can find files with spaces in their file names. This makes xargs go crazy unless you:
find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 …
The -print0 instructs find to end each search results with a NUL character. The -0 instructs xargs to use a NUL character as a separator. Neato
Example of how to find missing sequential files. I have a bunch of files named: 001.zip, 002.zip, 003.zip, etc. This helps me find if there are any missing files.
c=318; until [ $c -lt 1 ]; do a=`printf ‘%03d’ $c`; \\
if [ ! -f "${a}.zip" ]; then echo “Missing ${a}.zip”; fi; let c-=1;
