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CRIPTKicker
 PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2011 1:56 pm   

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I would like to tar and gzip all files which start with the line:
#!/bin/bash
Starting at / directory and recursively archiving all such files...

How would I easily go about this?
:-/ Martin
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choroba
 PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:21 am   
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Code:
grep '^#!/bin/bash' -Hnr / | grep :1: | cut -f1 -d: | xargs tar -czf archive.tgz

Be patient, it can take some time.
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CRIPTKicker
 PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 10:31 am   

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Thanks choroba... this looks like it should do the job...

Can you think of any way to avoid checking all the lines in the file for #!/bin/bash ??
I have some very large text files on the system and lots of 'em...

Martin :-/
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Patsie
 PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 2:30 pm   
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CRIPTKicker wrote:
Can you think of any way to avoid checking all the lines in the file for #!/bin/bash ??
I have some very large text files on the system and lots of 'em...

You're worried about text files? I'd be more worried about movies and mp3 collection all getting scanned by this :) But fair is fair, he did warn it could take a while ;)
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CRIPTKicker
 PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 9:20 am   

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I have hundreds of multiple-GB sized text files... This is a work computer... there are no .mp3 files or movie files... :-O
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DarthWavy
 PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:05 am   
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If you can be certain that the bash files are all limited to a maximum size, eg 10MB which is huge, then the 'find' command can be used to limit the search to only the smaller files.
It's also possible that using the 'file' command will run faster than grep for this, although it should be benchmarked :)
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