I have installed FC4 and am looking for a command line way to search all
files in all directories and sub-directories on a disk for files that
contain a certain text string such as the word gateway or mode or any word.
There are so many config files on Linux that if I had this capability I
could find out which one had the information I needed so I could then begin
to identify where I might want to look to fix or troubleshoot something
other than the log files. If this were Windows, I would just use the text
search string gui by right-clicking start.
I have tried find, grep, locate, egrep, man, and the Internet and have had
varying levels of success but none seem to be consistent. There are a
dizzying number of options,
I am pretty sure grep or find should work but I can't figure out how.
Can someone help ?
Thanks,
Roger
(P.S. I am scheduled for a Linux class next month.)
