From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 04:15:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA19829 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 04:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA19824 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 04:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous214.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.214]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12368; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:12:30 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA00434; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:52:43 +0100 (MET) To: michael dorin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: using the find command References: <199712211441.OAA13857@chaski.com> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 22 Dec 1997 12:52:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: michael dorin's message of Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:41:54 +0000 () Message-ID: Lines: 12 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk michael dorin writes: > Can somebody give me the syntax for using the find command to search > all the files in a tree for a specific string? $ locate string or $ find . -name '*string*' -print -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/