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