2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot <[email protected]> > >> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific > >> text within files? > > > > Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by > > itself, just their directory information. You normally use grep(1) to > > search within a file. > > Ahhh - I use grep on daily basis. Now why didn't I think of it? I got so > fixed on the idea of using find that I completely forgot about grep.... > > Sorry for the noise and thank you very much for your help! > > -- > Zbigniew Szalbot > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > Hello Mr. Zbigniew Szalbot,
You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for specific text pattern while you are in a directory with many sub directories. The output is nice because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :). a great day, v -- network warrior since 2005 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
