Linux Command - find

[DeeptiReddy]

Hii

This is deepti.

Please can anyone explain this command

find . -name \*.php -exec php -l '{}' \;

This is used to display PHP error notices in php scripts.

Thanks.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

find . -name \*.php : Search files having .php extention.
-exec php -l '{}' \; : this part do the syntax check on php files.

Check here for option you can use with php.

[DeeptiReddy]

Thank You for Quick Response.

I have one more doubt.

When I execute the above command in command prompt I got notices in php scripts. As I have many php scripts in the folder I have received 500+ notices but I am not able to see all the notices. can you pls say how to check/scroll all the notices. Thanks.

[devils casper]

Direct output of find command to a file.

find . -name \*.php -exec php -l '{}' \;  > error_list
less error_list

[DeeptiReddy]

I did not get the above statement. Can you please explain it clearly.

Actually my local system having windows operating system and I am connecting to linux server using putty. Here I need to execute this command(find) in this editor after getting connection from the server.

Is there any option to check 20 messages(per enter) by using -n 20................

[devils casper]

That command will store output of find in error_list file and you can check contents of error_list file using less command.
Have you tried to execute both commands one by one?

[DeeptiReddy]

Yes, I have executed these commands. Thanks a bunch......

If we use find . -name \*.php -exec php -l '{}' \; >> error_list... Will the error notices appends to this file(error_list)...?

[devils casper]

If we use find . -name \*.php -exec php -l '{}' \; >> error_list... Will the error notices appends to this file(error_list)...?

Yes. >> appends file.

[DeeptiReddy]

Thank You..