Finding files containing 'string'

James Kosin jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com
Wed Feb 1 16:45:29 UTC 2006


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Anne Wilson wrote:
> I need to list all files that refer to my network-name, but I can't work 
> out a command to do it.  I thought I would have to cat everything, 
> piping through grep 'string', but that doesn't search recursively, the 
> help-file doesn't show a recursive flag, and I'm not sure that it would 
> actually give me the filenames anyway.
> 
> Help, please?
> 
> Anne
> 
Why not use grep .... it allows searching recursively.

Look at the man pages.

James Kosin

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