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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:11:58 -0700
From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net>
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Subject: Re: using the find command
References: <199712211441.OAA13857@chaski.com>
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On Sunday December 21, 1997, michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>
 had this to say about "using the find command":

> Can somebody give me the syntax for using the find command to search
> all the files in a tree for a specific string?
> 

find . -name "*" -exec grep -l string {} \;

will give you the names of the files in the current tree which contain the
string you're looking for.

If you search for the string directly (i.e. ....grep -ni string....)
then it won't tell you in which file(s) it found the string.

Someone else may have a better idea how to do this.  It seems trivial to
write a shell script to first get the names of the files containing
<string> and then grep each file in turn.
--

> Any help will be apreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
>  Mike

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