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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <z.szalbot@lcwords.com>
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Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files
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On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:25:12 +0200, "Zbigniew Szalbot" <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific
> text within files?

One valid solution is to combine find (to find the files) and
grep (to search in them). For the combination, you can use
the famous back-tics.

	% grep "expression" `find /path/to/files/ -mtime -2 -print`

Of course, there are surely easier, faster and better means,
but from this one, I know it just works. :-) Furthermore, I
think -print is optional here.

If you want to use the Midnight Commander, use Meta-? for a
combined dialog:

	+----------------- Find File ------------------+
	|                                              |
	| Start at: _______________________________[^] |
	|                                              |
	| Filename: _______________________________[^] |
	|                                              |
	| Content:  _______________________________[^] |
	|                                              |
	| [ ] case Sensitive                           |
	|                                              |
	| [< OK >]  [ Tree ]                [ Cancel ] |
	+----------------------------------------------+

That's what I mostly use.




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Polytropon
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