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I am running the following command but not all files that I know have this string are being returned and I cannot work out why. Specifically the apache log files which are under this path are not being returned.

grep -rl "eval(base64_decode('" /var/www | xargs ls -l

Can anyone point me to what I need to change to get these files returned too?

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I am not sure , But i think you should try as root . – Jai Dec 27 '12 at 17:29
Nope if I sudo it I get the same results. – williamsdb Dec 27 '12 at 17:32
There is nothing wrong with your command. I tested the same and I'm able to get the results $ sudo grep -rl "eval(base64_decode('" /var/www | xargs ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 Dec 28 00:01 /var/www/drupal/themes/garland/deletethis1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 Dec 28 00:00 /var/www/drupal/themes/garland/deletethis.txt – devav2 Dec 27 '12 at 19:13

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The script is fine. I guess that your Apache logs don't contain the text matching the pattern.

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Strange. Log files definitely contain the string as I have search manually. Have to try something else I guess. – williamsdb Dec 30 '12 at 16:32

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