> 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 > grep and find can help as people have shown you but another option is: gnome-search-tool -- Aaron Konstam Professor Emeritus, Computer Science Trinity University San Antonio, Texas 210-999-7484
