2008/10/26 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello
> I would like to do a recursive search of directories and files, checking to
> see if a file contains a certain string.
> <STDIN> will be a string containing whitespace(s).
> As soon as I hit enter, I would like dummy.txt to be time stamped and again
> at termination.
> I'm playing about with 9.85GB (2.57 million files).
>
> If possible, full pathnames of the files containing the string to go to
> dummy.txt
use a "find" command simply:
find /path -type f -exec grep -H "string" {} \;
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Jeff Pang
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