From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 13:23:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web9205.mail.yahoo.com (web9205.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B68A637B423 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:23:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20000829202325.12788.qmail@web9205.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.101.212.253] by web9205.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:23:25 PDT Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:23:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Hall Subject: help To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message