Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 14:56:22 +0300 From: Valentin Bud <valentin.bud@gmail.com> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find and searching for specific expression in files Message-ID: <139b44430905300456x62bf9c0ybf46bcab6b64e25@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80cddf609e38046ffa0ce3f2bdab235c.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> References: <dd6b168d2af9ddbcfc52e5c0397e4d6a.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <20090530101328.GA59991@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <80cddf609e38046ffa0ce3f2bdab235c.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com>
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2009/5/30 Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hello Mr. Zbigniew Szalbot, You can use egrep -r * (grep -e) to search for specific text pattern while you are in a directory with many sub directories. The output is nice because it tells you the file in which the text pattern was found :). a great day, v -- network warrior since 2005
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