Re: Check for Confidential Content

[Georg Graf <georg.graf () wu-wien ac at>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:51:35PM -0300, you wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Does anyone knows if exist a tool that allows search multiple strings in
> multiple files at once? 
> I need to check the public area of my network to see if any confidential or
> inapropriate file was posted there. I have a hundred of phrases and
> thousands of files to check. 

# find /path -type f | xargs egrep -l -f patternfile

will reveal a list of "infected" files.

hth,
  George
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