Often when administering WebSphere on AIX or even any UNIX platform, you may wish to scan log or configuration files for certain words.

Lets say you need to find all the configuration files or logs that contain a server name and a resource name?

Example words to find:

Server Name: server1
Resource Name: zlist

Command:

find . -type f | xargs grep "server1" | grep "zlist"

This command will find all the files that contain the keyword server1 and filter them by the key word zlist. The result being a list of files from the current directory and all sub directories that contain both the words server AND zlist.

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