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Date:      Sun, 31 May 2009 23:25:01 +0800
From:      =?utf-8?B?6YOR5aSp5a6H?= <zhengtianyu@gmail.com>
To:        Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: find and searching for specific expression in files
Message-ID:  <20090531152500.GA1119@zheng.org>
In-Reply-To: <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com>
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:25:12AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
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> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific
> text within files?

If you just want the filenames which contain the string you are
searching for, use the "-l" argument to tell grep to print out the
filenames.

For example:

grep -rl "string" .

will print out all the filenames containning "string".


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