Newby Question FC4
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at trinity.edu
Wed Jan 18 22:20:08 UTC 2006
> I have installed FC4 and am looking for a command line way to search all
> files in all directories and sub-directories on a disk for files that
> contain a certain text string such as the word gateway or mode or any
> word.
> There are so many config files on Linux that if I had this capability I
> could find out which one had the information I needed so I could then
> begin
> to identify where I might want to look to fix or troubleshoot something
> other than the log files. If this were Windows, I would just use the text
> search string gui by right-clicking start.
>
> I have tried find, grep, locate, egrep, man, and the Internet and have had
> varying levels of success but none seem to be consistent. There are a
> dizzying number of options,
>
> I am pretty sure grep or find should work but I can't figure out how.
>
> Can someone help ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>
grep and find can help as people have shown you but another option is:
gnome-search-tool
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Aaron Konstam
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
210-999-7484
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