29 Feb
2004
29 Feb
'04
02:15
N1UAN Bob wrote:
Hi Wonder if someone could give me the way to grep for an word within all files on my system like the filename would be XXXX.XX seems no matter what i been trying i am just not doing it right thanks in advance Bob
You might try the following, from O'Reilly's "Unix Power Tools" find . -type f -print | xargs fgrep 'text' /dev/null Replace "text" with the word you're looking for. You might also want to replace the "." after find, with "/", to start from /, instead of the current directory.