listing all code in all files in all directories

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi all,
can any one help me out in this:::
basically i need to list all the contents in all files in all directories (starting from root and then onwards)...i will get the session saved in a file (just a secure CRT, etc)

seems to be a simple one.
if anyone can come forward, its really appreciated.

root password is available.

Regards,

2

Is this what you are looking for?

ls -lR / >list.dat
3 
find / -type f | xargs cat > outfile

If you need the names of each file to prepend to the content's file in the final output file, use the following code ( slower than the previous one ) :

find / -type f | while read files
 do 
   echo "$files";  cat "$files" 
 done > outfile
4

ok thanks. if we wanna ignore the binary files how we gonna do it... coz we cannot 'cat / view' them as it shows hexadecimal characters...

5

You can use the file command on each file before displaying it. If the output of that command contains the word "text", display it, otherwise display an error like "so-and-so is a binary file".