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Perl Searching

Hi. I'm not a developer so I'll do my best at this. I had a develoepr leave who had written a TON of code in perl. My problem is that he has obviously used his own AD username and password to complete certain tasks within the perl code. I need to search an entire drive where these .pl files are for the specific username. At this point I don't need to replace anything just yet.. just need to be able to find anywhere he used that specific username so that I can determine what it's doing and where.

This is urgent, so 500 points it is!

Thanks in advance.
Todd

mrjoltcola

You mention AD (Active Directory?) so I assume this is on a Windows platform, but since you can still interface to AD from UNIX I won't assume. Which OS specifically?

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Todd W

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it is windows 2000 server and 2003 server platforms in question.

Todd W

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and there is no subdirectory. i need to search the entire drive on those web servers. I have no idea where this guy stored everything....

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Todd W

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ok folks I don't necessarily know how to divy up the points here. The solution I was looking for truly was from kukno although I learned a lot about cygwin in the process.

How do you folks want me to handle this?

Adam314

You should divvy up the points based on how valuable you find each comment.

Todd W

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thank you very much folks. Lots of GREAT info here.

Todd W

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ok.. 200 to kukno, 100 to mrjoltcola, and 200 to adam314

thanks a bunch folks....