find in conjuction with grep

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 11.08.2004 schrieb Kevin Old um 20:31:

> I've been using
> find . -exec grep "phrase I want" {} \;

Not the best way. Using -exec is problematic.

> for quite a while to search recursively through directories and files
> to find a phrase or word.
> 
> The results I get back are simply the line(s) that contained the
> phrase, but no path or filename.

find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep "string"

> I'd thought about the -name flag, but I can't seem to figure out how
> to use it, though it is more for using to search for file names rather
> than display the name, it seems.

find /path/to/search/under -name "*string*"

will find all object names with "string" anywhere in, like "stringfoo"
or "foostringbar" or just "string".

> Kevin

Alexander


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