Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:11:58 -0700 From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using the find command Message-ID: <19971221141158.00667@denver.net> In-Reply-To: <199712211441.OAA13857@chaski.com>; from michael dorin on Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 02:41:54PM %2B0000 References: <199712211441.OAA13857@chaski.com>
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On Sunday December 21, 1997, michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>
had this to say about "using the find command":
> Can somebody give me the syntax for using the find command to search
> all the files in a tree for a specific string?
>
find . -name "*" -exec grep -l string {} \;
will give you the names of the files in the current tree which contain the
string you're looking for.
If you search for the string directly (i.e. ....grep -ni string....)
then it won't tell you in which file(s) it found the string.
Someone else may have a better idea how to do this. It seems trivial to
write a shell script to first get the names of the files containing
<string> and then grep each file in turn.
--
> Any help will be apreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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