From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 13: 5:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.venon.com (ns1.venon.com [64.7.7.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B21637B42C for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from megalomaniac.biosys.net (megalomaniac.venon.com [64.7.7.82]) by ns1.venon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE95DD1430 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:08:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000829160824.00b3bb68@mail.megapathdsl.net> X-Sender: alle@mail.megapathdsl.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:08:48 -0400 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Asymmetric Subject: Re: help In-Reply-To: <20000829200207.17752.qmail@web4103.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13:02 08/29/2000 -0700, J A Shamsi wrote: >Hello >I would like to search for a "specific text" >on my machine. >I would like to know all the FILENAMES and PATHS >which contains a SPECIFIC TEXT. > >I know i have to playwith FIND or GREP >but if any one of you have any idea please let me >know As root... find / -name 'text and wildcards here' -print -------signature file------- "'There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" -Mario Savio- Founder of the Free Speech Movement. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message