Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:44:06 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net>, mike@chaski.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using the find command Message-ID: <349DE206.9512157A@dal.net> References: <199712211441.OAA13857@chaski.com> <19971221141158.00667@denver.net>
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John-David Childs wrote:
>
> 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.
Errrr... yes it will. :) 'grep -i string *' will do all the files in
the same directory, and 'grep -iR string *' will recurse the tree. The
-i option means do a case insensitive search. You can man grep for more
info.
Hope this helps,
Doug
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