Finding files containing 'string'
Dave Gavin
dgavin at davegavin.com
Wed Feb 1 16:52:43 UTC 2006
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:42:19 +0000
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> 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
> --
> Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
Anne,
find $startpoint -type f -exec grep -l $network-name {} \;
Change $startpoint to whatever place in the directory tree that you want to
begin the search or cd to that place and use "." as the startpoint. Change
$network-name to the string that you want to look for.
Dave
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