On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:25:12 +0200, "Zbigniew Szalbot" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific
> text within files?
One valid solution is to combine find (to find the files) and
grep (to search in them). For the combination, you can use
the famous back-tics.
% grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print`
Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means,
but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I
think -print is optional here.
If you want to use the Midnight Commander, use Meta-? for a
combined dialog:
+----------------- Find File ------------------+
| |
| Start at: _______________________________[^] |
| |
| Filename: _______________________________[^] |
| |
| Content: _______________________________[^] |
| |
| [ ] case Sensitive |
| |
| [< OK >] [ Tree ] [ Cancel ] |
+----------------------------------------------+
That's what I mostly use.
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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