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Re: [SuSE Linux] String search in all text files
  • From: Michael.Salmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Salmon)
  • Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:48:15 +0100
  • Message-id: <199811101148.MAA27943@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



+----- On Sat, 07 Nov 1998 17:29:51 EST, "Casey Bralla" writes:
|
| I want to search every file on my hard disk for a specific
| text string. Anybody got a simple way of doing this?

You probably don't want to do that but if you really must:

find / -type f -print | xargs -e egrep "text string"

You will probably want to include a -size option in the find command so
that you don't search large binaries and an -fstype if you NFS mount
file systems.

/Michael

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