On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:08, chalonec wrote:
> 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,
grep -r string .
or
find . -type f -print |xargs grep string
> I am pretty sure grep or find should work but I can't figure out how.
>
> Can someone help ?
Things that might help to know:
. is a convenient name for "current directory"
and
The shell will expand wildcards and process metacharacters on
the command line before apps see them, so if your search string
includes *?<>{}()|$&\"' (and I probably missed some), you should
enclose it in single quotes which the shell will remove. Add
-i to the grep command if you want case insensitivity.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
