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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:29:29 -0400
From:      "Peter Brezny" <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   can find search for text inside files?
Message-ID:  <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAIEPOCBAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com>

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I need to search a number of e-mail files for specific text.

Can find look at each text file in a directory, and search them for a
specific string of text?

and if so, could someone provide a sample command line for find?  I've read
through the man page, but...

TIA

Peter Brezny
SysAdmin Services Inc.


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