From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 14:19:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl2-77.citlink.net [207.173.226.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA75037B41A for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:19:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.196]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 483B9EE696 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:22:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <011701c18f24$951d3b00$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: Subject: How To Recursively Search Directory For Text String In Files? Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:19:42 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I am beginning to understand the power of FBSD and am sure this is possible. I just don't know how to do it. What I want to do is search all files in my current directory and all the directories below it for a text string and then know what file(s) contains the string. I understand that grep will do the search but my knowledge is limited to "cat file.txt | grep string". How can I construct a command in tcsh to feed each file to cat and then feed it to grep *AND* know the name of the file grep found the match? Do I have the right concept? Is there a better way to accomplish my goal? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message