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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "Joe Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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Subject: Re: How To Recursively Search Directory For Text String In Files?
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:34:13 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: How To Recursively Search Directory For Text String In
Files?


>
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
>
> You can do grep -r <pattern> *, but I prefer:
>
> find <directory> -type f -name <optional filename pattern> | xargs
grep
> <pattern>

Thank you very much!  I *knew* it had to be possible but had not come
across xargs yet.  It looks like a very powerful tool that will have a
lot of uses!

Drew

> For example:
>
> find /usr/ports -type f -name Makefile | xargs grep -i snmp
>
> This would search all Makefiles found anywhere in the /usr/ports tree
and
> grep case-insensitvely through them for the pattern "snmp".
>
> Joe
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
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