On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:22:07PM -0500, CodeHeads wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:49 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 20:41, CodeHeads wrote: > > > > > > How about this: > > > > > > $du -a <PATH> | grep <FILE> > > > > > > This works well for me. > > > > That returns files with the string in the name, I believe. I need files > > with the string in the body. > > > > Anne > > oooppss sorry Anne :) I was confused. LOL > -- I had two suggestions: 1. gnome-search-tool 2. find ./ -name "*" -exec grep "string" {} /dev/null \; Someone suggested even a better command solution than 2. above but I can't remember what it is. -- ======================================================================= "Say yur prayers, yuh flea-pickin' varmint!" -- Yosemite Sam ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484