On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:38 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 23:00, Daniel Vogel wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > > --
> > >
> > >find . -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep "string"
> > >
> > >should work.
> >
> > ..err...my sugestion is much simple...
> >
> > grep -e <string> <files>
> >
> > the for example:
> > grep -e Daniel *.html
> >
> > will show me in wich file the line WITH the string "Daniel" will
> > appear. being more efficient, you can place another flag to show you
> > the exact line number.
> >
> > No need of cat, nor more to search on every file on a
> > directory...haven't tryed yet on a full root search.
> >
> > Hiope it helps.
>
> The problem is that, while this looks simple, I'm trying to find all
> config files that refer to my lan-name, and config files don't have a
> specific extension. In fact I can't think of any regular pattern to
> their names.
To search ALL files, display the files with matching names AND the line
that matches:
# find / -exec grep -iH pattern \{\} \;
Modify the find command to exclude directories you know you aren't
interested in. For example to ignore any "mail" directories:
# find / -path "*mail*" -prune -o -exec grep -iH pattern \{\} \;
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