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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. From: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk (Phil Packer)
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!wicked.demon.co.uk!pep
  4. Subject: Re: TextSearch under Linux
  5. Reply-To: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk
  6. References: <7-PCNews-124beta@alpha.saar.de>
  7. Distribution: world
  8. X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.30 $
  9. Organization: No chance
  10. Lines: 39
  11. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:41:51 +0000
  12. Message-ID: <727940511snx@wicked.demon.co.uk>
  13. Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
  14.  
  15. In article <7-PCNews-124beta@alpha.saar.de> georg@alpha.saar.de (Georg Edelmann) writes:
  16. > Hello Linux-World,
  17. > 
  18. > I'm quite sure that anyone had this problem too :
  19. > 
  20. > what's the shell command(s) for searching text in files recursively
  21. > in all subdirectories from a given point in FS tree ?
  22. > 
  23. > Thanks for help.
  24. > 
  25. > Georg
  26. > 
  27. > 
  28. > ----
  29. > Georg Edelmann                                  Telephone: 49-7643-8807
  30. > georg@alpha.saar.de                             Address:   Dragonerstrasse 47
  31. >                                                            D 7834 Herbolzheim 4
  32. >                                                            Germany
  33. > 
  34.  
  35. I find that
  36.  
  37. grep "something" `find / -name "fred.txt" -print`
  38.  
  39. will find "something" in all files called "fred.txt" anywhere in the filesystem
  40.  
  41. Edit to taste!
  42.  
  43. Phil 8-)
  44.  
  45. ps you _do_ (IMHO) need all the quotes if you have wildcards in this anywhere!
  46. +-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
  47. |Phil Packer                  | pep@wicked.demon.co.uk          (home)       |
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