[Cialug] Find Files with String

Dave Hala Jr dave at 58ghz.net
Fri Dec 11 11:08:15 CST 2009


This recurses:

 grep "string-im-looking-for" -rn *  

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:55 -0600, Todd Walton wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
> >
> > find . -exec grep -H string {} \;
> 
> Wouldn't that be the same as ' grep string * ' ?
> 
> Well, I guess it wouldn't recurse.
> 
> --
> Todd
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