On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, fredex wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:42:19PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I need to list all files that refer to my network-name, but I can't work > > out a command to do it. I thought I would have to cat everything, > > piping through grep 'string', but that doesn't search recursively, the > > help-file doesn't show a recursive flag, and I'm not sure that it would > > actually give me the filenames anyway. > > > > Help, please? > > > > Anne > > -- > > Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) > > Do this as root. > > To see a list of filenames containing the target string: > > find / -name \* -exec grep -l 'put your string here' {} \; > > if you want to see the actual file content containing the string, simply > remove the -l option from grep. "grep" works recursively, you know. rday
