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Re: mc finds more than `find` finds?

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On 2015-11-28, WhoCares@gmail.com <WhoCares@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still searching for a way to know the pid of eg. the instance of
> `wily` which is has a certain file open.
>
> `pgrep wily` lists all the instances of 'wily'
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> I was hoping that, I'd find which wily has opened file *CONTROL* by:-
> for PID in `pgrep wily`; do find /proc/$PID -exec grep -l "CONTROL" {} \;  >> trace; done
> --- that's supposed to be ONE line ---
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> Using successive refinement:
>  first I used mc to browse /proc/24357 to find a suitable search target.
> Obviously "wily" would be there.
>
>  Then I 'confirmed ?': 
> find /proc/24357 -exec grep  "wily" {} \;

You need to escape {}  (ie \{\}, or '{}' or the shell will interpret it. 


>  but that failed, although mc could find several "wily" in /proc/24357

egrep -r would work better than your "find" line
Also, while you might find the command line arguments, if wiley opened
the file, I do not think you would find it this way. 
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> OK, we know that /proc is some kind of spooky FS ?
> So, I copied to /find, [using mc] 2 of the files of /proc/24357 which
> contain "wily", and of course, they are found by:
>   find /find -exec grep  "wily" {} \; ==
> ./status 
> ./environ
>
> How can mc look into /proc/24357 and show the contents if the basic
> `find` can't see it?

grep -r "wily" /proc/24357

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mc finds more than `find` finds? WhoCares@gmail.com - 2015-11-28 00:37 +0000
  Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-28 00:52 +0000
    Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@domain.invalid> - 2015-11-28 16:15 +0000
      Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-28 17:59 +0000
        Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-11-28 20:07 +0200
          Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-28 20:44 +0000
            Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-11-29 12:41 +0200
        Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@domain.invalid> - 2015-11-28 18:14 +0000
          Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-11-28 11:52 -0900
            Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2015-11-29 16:35 +0100
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-11-29 10:49 -0900
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-11-29 20:24 +0000
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-11-29 14:09 -0900
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-11-30 09:24 +0000
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 10:08 +0000
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-29 20:07 +0000
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 20:10 +0000
            Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2016-01-04 23:07 +0000
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-04 23:27 +0000
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-01-04 19:28 -0500
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-05 14:04 +0000
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-01-05 18:12 +0000
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-01-05 21:05 +0000
  Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid> - 2015-11-28 02:22 +0100
  Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-11-30 15:59 +0000
    Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 12:52 +0000

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