Re: Search an entire drive for character string

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-----Original Message-----
From: "chrisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <chrisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:19:10AM -0600
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Search an entire drive for character string


> You can try:
> 
> grep 'string' /* -R
> 
> 
> 
> fergus wrote:
> 
> >Is there a way (dunno, maybe using dd and grep?) that an entire drive,
> >and not just the files on it, can be scanned for a character string?
> >Fergus
> >
> > 
> >
> 
How about baobab from extras
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<liw> damn, the autonomous mouse movement starts usually after I use a
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<wichert> don't use a mouse button then :)
<liw> yeah, right :)
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