Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:19:42 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How To Recursively Search Directory For Text String In Files? Message-ID: <011701c18f24$951d3b00$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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OK, I am beginning to understand the power of FBSD and am sure this is possible. I just don't know how to do it. What I want to do is search all files in my current directory and all the directories below it for a text string and then know what file(s) contains the string. I understand that grep will do the search but my knowledge is limited to "cat file.txt | grep string". How can I construct a command in tcsh to feed each file to cat and then feed it to grep *AND* know the name of the file grep found the match? Do I have the right concept? Is there a better way to accomplish my goal? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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