Search for specified file or extension

HI all,
my manger need report for specified folder and PDFs extension. is there any help Plz.

But you are still not answering my question. When you find a PDF, how will you know that the PDF is the one you are looking for?
File      Name?
Check      sum?
Look      at each file?
Any way you look at it, CM12 is not the best for this. For that matter (sorry Jason) neither is PoSH, the right tool for this job. Why because:
It      will not inventory removable drives.
If      the file name changes, you are foobar
If      the file is deleted, you are foobar
If      the file exist in an non-inventory section of the HD, you are foobar
If      it takes longer than 4 hours (*) to inventory the HD, you are foobar
For that matter (sorry Jason) neither is PoSH, the right tool for this Job.
This is a basic audit task, as such you need to go back to the Oracle system and find out from it, who access/created the file. Once you determine who and when the
file was created you can do something about it. But until you do that, you are just spinning your wheels and you will never be sure that things are done right.
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:50:58 +0000 (UTC), "MartinUCSD"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I know you can search for phrases within a file's code,
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>defined an extremely large site in Dreamweaver with
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>and then I search for a file with the phrase "contact" in
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~

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