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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:23:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Andrew Hall <usernumber1000@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   help
Message-ID:  <20000829202325.12788.qmail@web9205.mail.yahoo.com>

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try this 

find / -type f -print |xargs grep SEARCH /dev/null

replace SEARCH with your test to search for.  


Andrew Hall



>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

>thanks
>j/s


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