finding a file and opening it at the same time - in linux

[dilbert_one]

howdy dear ubuntuexperts

hope you are all right and everything goes well.

This is probably an easy one, but I can't figure it out and it's pretty much not searchable.

on a linux-machine i have installed filezilla

the filezilla runs pretty well and all is ok.

now i need to have the passwd that i have stored years ago. The passprhase is stored in a plain in a file called sitemanager.xmlfile


I want to find that file and open it with a terminal command.


find . -name *.sitemanager


well i thought that this will return the file I'm looking for. Now how do I open it automatically, without typing the name?



find . -name *sitemanager.xm | open


This doesn't work. It says it doesn't found the open command.


question: why it does not work on opensuse?

should i use any other command - eg the following:



find . -name *xyz | xargs open

or


find . -name *sitemanager.xml | xargs open

or


find . -name *.xyz -exec open {} \;


and


find . -name *.xyz -exec open {} \; .


any and all help will be greatly appreciate

again: what is wanted and needet is to find out the passphrase in the filezilla-configuration

[Lars Noodén]

Try using the 'gnome-open' after 'xargs'.

[dilbert_one]

hello dear lars nooden




Try using the 'gnome-open' after 'xargs'.


like so



find . -name *sitemanager.xml | xargs open gnome-open



note - i run kde not gnome
should i use some simmilar for kde?

[Lars Noodén]

Maybe "xdg-open" is there, I probably should have mentioned that one instead. I don't have Kubuntu available at the moment, though I used to have it a long while back.

[dilbert_one]

hello again many many thanks for the reply

well i should have mentioned this. i run opensuse linux 13.1 with kde


again - many many thanks for the quick reply

i tried some things:



find . -name "*sitemanager.xml" | xargs less


runs nice - but does not open the file




find ./ -name "*sitemanager.xml" -exec cat {} \;

runs but has got no permissions to do any thing with the results


see below



find ./ -name "*sitemanager.xml" -exec cat {} \;
linux-70ce:/ # ls | grep filezilla.xml | xargs open
xargs: open: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux-70ce:/ # ls | grep recentservers.xml | xargs open
xargs: open: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux-70ce:/ # find ./ -name "*sitemanager.xml" -exec cat {} \;
find: ‘./var/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Keine Berechtigung
find: ‘./run/user/1000/gvfs’: Keine Berechtigung
linux-70ce:/ #




note keine berechtigung means - no permission
this is very very funny - since i run this command as a superuser ! Isnt this very funny?



well months ago i had a code that was runnng and opening the fine . - with another file that i needed to edit. the file was opendd in kwrite or kate

but now i have no luck

see another idea like so




find . -name *sitemanager.xml | xargs open gnome-open



but wait - this does not run as well - since i run kde and not (!!!!) gnome


do you have any other ideas to get a solution?


any and all help will be greatly appreciated

[Lars Noodén]

find . -name 'sitemanager.xml' -exec xdg-open "{}" \;


I just noticed that you had an extra asterisk. If the filename was not enclosed in quotes then it might have expanded in the shell. If xdg-open is not available on your system then kde-open might be there.

[dilbert_one]

i tried this command - but i guess that i have permissions-problems


many many thanks for the hints - well i looged as root


linux-70ce:/home # cd..
linux-70ce:/ # grep Pass ~/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml
grep: /root/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux-70ce:/ # grep Pass ~/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml
grep: /root/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux-70ce:/ # grep Pass ~/.filezilla/filezilla.xml
grep: /root/.filezilla/filezilla.xml: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux-70ce:/ #



all the results were telling that i have the directory or the file cannot be found...

well this is so funny -

a. i have installed filezillla on the machine
b. the passwd ( or passphrase) is written in a xml-file
c- it is written in plaintext

by the way - there are more things to do:

eg - the the next step i to tomorrow.



Use "ls -l /pathtofile/file to print its permissions and find out why.

well i guess that this is a key step


i do more tests on this tomorow

untill then

btw - i also tried out the followning

we ve have to choose which editor we want to open the file in and use the proper command for that editor. For example:


find ./ -name 'blah' -exec vim {} \;

but - hmm i guess that i had no luck with this

[papibe]

Hi dilbert_one.

Most of the above suggestion to find and open a file work.

Test this:

$ echo "This is a test file." > ./test_file.txt

$ ls test_file.txt
test_file.txt

$ cat test_file.txt
This is a test file.

$ find -name 'test_file.txt'
./test_file.txt

$ find -name 'test_file.txt' -exec cat {} \;
This is a test file.

$
I believe the problem is that you haven't found the file yet.

Try this:

sudo find /home /root -type f -iname 'sitemanager.xml'
Hope it helps. Let us know how it goes.
Regards.