*-Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their | documents? 4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do. Is there | a way to pipe 'find'? Or do I need to use gawk? | When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search multiple | directories. I find never used | gawk before so I probably didn't know what I was doing. I would prefer | to 'find' somehow but I am | not sure how to search for text using it. Any suggestions?
Hm. Do you mean something like: find . -name '*.html' | xargs grep 'mytext' -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). (Matt Welsh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]