Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:50:41 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How To Recursively Search Directory For Text String In Files? Message-ID: <20011227174915.Q195-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <011701c18f24$951d3b00$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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>Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:19:42 -0800
>From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
>To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: How To Recursively Search Directory For Text String In Files?
>
>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
>
>
Try this:
find . -exec grep -H searchtext {} \;
Scott Nolde
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