Bash script to find inappropiate words.

[pauhn]

I have to write a script that searches all users home directories documents for bomb, kill, my name, quit and steal. The script has to report to the screen as: Username: smith, Line with bad word found: I want to kill, and Path and file name: /home/smith/letter.txt After running the script for the first time, legitimate uses (kill the process) have to be omitted.

This is what I have thus far:

KVAR=`find /home/* | xargs grep "kill"`
BVAR=`find /home/* | xargs grep "bomb"`
NVAR=`find /home/* | xargs grep "my name"`
QVAR=`find /home/* | xargs grep "quit"`
SVAR=`find /home/* | xargs grep "steal"`

KDIR=`echo $KVAR | cut -d : -f 1`
BDIR=`echo $BVAR | cut -d : -f 1`
NDIR=`echo $NVAR | cut -d : -f 1`
QDIR=`echo $QVAR | cut -d : -f 1`
SDIR=`echo $SVAR | cut -d : -f 1`

KLINE=`echo $KVAR | cut -d : -f 2`
BLINE=`echo $BVAR | cut -d : -f 2`
NLINE=`echo $NVAR | cut -d : -f 2`
QLINE=`echo $QVAR | cut -d : -f 2`
SLINE=`echo $SQAR | cut -d : -f 2`

UK=`echo $KDIR | cut -d / -f 3`
UB=`echo $BDIR | cut -d / -f 3`
UN=`echo $NDIR | cut -d / -f 3`
UQ=`echo $QDIR | cut -d / -f 3`
US=`echo $SDIR | cut -d / -f 3`

if [ -e $KDIR ]; then
echo Username: $UK, Line with bad word found: $KLINE, Path and file name: $KDIR
fi

if [ -e $BDIR ]; then
echo

It's incomplete because I'm stuck/worn out and just trying to find a little help with a fresh set of eyes. Basically, what I'm trying to do is loop the variables to show the bad words, I still have no idea how to set that up right, and how to omit proper uses.

Thanks a lot.

[pauhn]

still can't get it to work properly.

[h1tman]

The easy way to do this would be to use egrep. Something like this should work:

find /home -type f | xargs egrep -i 'word1|word2|word3|word4'

hope this helps!