On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 14:26, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 16:58, Paul Howarth wrote: > > My personal favourite solution for this problem: > > > > $ grep -i -r -l 'string' /place/to.start/searching > > > That worked well when I searched /etc, but when I tried the same search > on /usr or /var it got many 'no such file or directory' returns, and > eventually reported a loop in the search. I wanted to save the results > to a text file. The /etc one worked. The other two resulted in a text > file being created, but at soon as it hit a non-existant file it jumped > back to screen, and nothing at all is written in the text file. It's probably not a good idea to let things wander through /proc or /dev reading everything in sight. You might also have trouble with symlinks pointing to files that don't exist but I don't think that should make the program stop. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
