For question 1: grep foo `cat name.of.file.with.list.in.that.file`
For question 2: lsof /usr/lib/cows This will show you which file is currently opening /usr/lib/cows. Regards. Paul Kevin J Poorman wrote: > > hello > > As a somewhat unix/Linux newbie I have a few questions for this list: > > they are in no spesific order: > > 1: I have a text file that in of itself is a list of files. I would like > to take that list and grep though them to find a string. I think this can > be done with a shell script (Bash) but I have know idea how. Can anyone > give me some pointers and or post a script ? ... TIA > > 2: The purpose of the above question is to find a file that has a string > (IE search all the files on the hard drive for the string "foo" and list > the files that have foo in it) Now that I know what file has "foo" in it > I need to log all the programs that write to this file ? > eg. program foobar and program foobarx both write to text file > /usr/lib/cows I need to know what program is writing to that file and > when > > is there a way to acopmlish these things without jumping into a c program > ... > > TIA > > -Have a good one > -Kevin Poorman > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
