Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 03:30:21 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to search IN a bunch of files? Message-ID: <20020220033021.Z48401@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020220121803.E5644@xs4all.nl>; from rene@xs4all.nl on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:18:04PM %2B0100 References: <20020220121803.E5644@xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:18:04PM +0100, rene@xs4all.nl wrote:
> Hello. I'd like to be able to search in all files on my freebsd system for a
> given regexp. Yes, I want to search the contents of the files specified.
>
> I can get find(1) to supply me with a list of valid paths, but am unsure
> how to grep within all these files. an example would be appreciated.
Two basic approches. Run grep(1) on each file once found,
$ find /path <your usual set of find parameters> -print -exec grep <regex> {} \;
Or run find(1) to get the list of files and grep(1) them all,
$ grep <regex> `find /path <your usual set of find parameters>`
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