[NTLUG:Discuss] searching text in all files for match

[Fred James]

A good thought, and I have found "-r" as an option to grep on Linux, but 
not on the *NIX I need to run the search on.  Would that Linux was all I 
had to deal with.


Rick Moncello wrote:

> OK, let me through in my $0.02 and add a fourth way. . .
> 
> grep -r -I "text" /
> 
> Rick.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Fred James
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] searching text in all files for match
> 
> 
> That makes 3 lovely ways to do it - Thanks all!
> 
> Recap:
> find . -type f | xargs file | grep -i text | cut -f1 -d: | xargs grep 
> "search for this"
> 
> find / -type f -print -exec fgrep "text to find" {} \;
> 
> 
> find . -exec grep -l 'text to search for' {} \;
> 
> 
> 
> Alton R. Pouncey, II wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:42, Fred James wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My brain is stuck - trying to remember how to search all text files on 
>>>the machine for matches to a text string.  Any nudges?
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates
>>>
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>>find . -exec grep -l 'text to search for' {} \;
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> 


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"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates