Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:05:22 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding files containing specific text Message-ID: <15318.48274.561205.271382@apu.five.sight> In-Reply-To: <200110241256.f9OCuB801980@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200110241256.f9OCuB801980@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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> Somewhere in my /home directory there are some files containing text > 'starfish'. > > How can I get a list of all files in the /home directory and its > subdirectories that contain the text 'starfish'? $ find ~ -type f | xargs grep -l starfish Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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