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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:13:20 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mail.cz>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: finding files containing specific text
Message-ID:  <20011024151320.A20018@roman.mobil.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200110241256.f9OCuB801980@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
References:  <200110241256.f9OCuB801980@lv.raad.tartu.ee>

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> From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:55:25 +0200
> Subject: finding files containing specific text
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Somewhere in my /home directory there are some files containing 
> text 'starfish'.
> 
> How can I get a list of all files in the /home directory and its 
> subdirectories that contain the text 'starfish'?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

    grep -FIHnr 'starfish' ~
   
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