Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 12:19:24 +0200 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files Message-ID: <80cddf609e38046ffa0ce3f2bdab235c.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> In-Reply-To: <20090530101328.GA59991@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <20090530101328.GA59991@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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>> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific >> text within files? > > Generally, you don't - find(1) does not examine the contents of files by > itself, just their directory information. You normally use grep(1) to > search within a file. Ahhh - I use grep on daily basis. Now why didn't I think of it? I got so fixed on the idea of using find that I completely forgot about grep.... Sorry for the noise and thank you very much for your help! -- Zbigniew Szalbot
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