Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 17:52:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905301752100.18381@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> References: <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com>
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> I am using find in the following manner: > > find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -ls |less > to find files which have been recently modified. But I would like to > extend the search to find specific expression within files. -name is used > to specify file name. How can I search for strings within text? no matter how you generate the list of files to search, use grep then on that list
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