akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:22:07PM -0500, CodeHeads wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:49 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 20:41, CodeHeads wrote:
> > >
> > > How about this:
> > >
> > > $du -a| grep
> > >
> > > This works well for me.
> >
> > That returns files with the string in the name, I believe. I need files
> > with the string in the body.
> >
> > Anne
>
> oooppss sorry Anne :) I was confused. LOL
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I had two suggestions:
1. gnome-search-tool
2. find ./ -name "*" -exec grep "string" {} /dev/null \;
Someone suggested even a better command solution than 2. ! above but I
can't remember what it is.
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Actually, find is recursive by nature so there is no need to use filename expansion metacharacters (such as * ) if one is searching in all files. So. . . if you are searching for text, rather than digits . . .# cd /dir (could be / if you need to search all mounted files systems)# find . -type f -exec grep -i "string" {} /dev/null \; OR# find . -type f -exec egrep -i "string|string|string" {} \;If you are searching for multiple patterns. OR# find . -name '*.txt' -type f -exec grep -i "string" {} \;If you are searching only in files with a .txt. extention.
--Nix
