+----- 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 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e