Unix Tip: COLLECTING FILES

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Unix Tip 3140 - September 11, 2009

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COLLECTING FILES

NOTE: Depending on how the command is used, an admin with root can abuse their privileges.

If there are similar files on a system and you wish to collect the contents of those files (possibly for security reasons) the following command will search a system for a filename and output the contents into a file to be viewed.

# find / -name .rhosts -perm -004 -print > rhosts 2>e &

Another use was brought up that one could learn what other commands users use. They may have thought of some tricks you may not have:

# find / -name .bash_history -perm -004 -print >o 2>e &

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