On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:42:19 +0000 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/) Anne, find $startpoint -type f -exec grep -l $network-name {} \; Change $startpoint to whatever place in the directory tree that you want to begin the search or cd to that place and use "." as the startpoint. Change $network-name to the string that you want to look for. Dave -- Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.... "Song of the Sausage Creature" Hunter S. Thompson (RIP 02/20/2005)
