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how to find which files have a specific string?
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| Bing Du 2004-03-10, 10:36 am |
| Greetings,
RedHat 9.
When I used Solaris (7,8), I used the command 'mg' quite often for this
purpose. But I don't see 'mg' on RedHat.
Appreciate any help,
Bing
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| Davide Bianchi 2004-03-10, 10:36 am |
| Bing Du <bdu@iastate.edu> wrote:
> When I used Solaris (7,8), I used the command 'mg' quite often for this
> purpose. But I don't see 'mg' on RedHat.
If you mean 'a file that contains a specific string', use
grep for that.
Davide
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| Bing Du 2004-03-10, 11:34 am |
| Great. I've never used 'grep' recursively. Thanks much for the heads-up.
Bing
Davide Bianchi wrote:
> Bing Du <bdu@iastate.edu> wrote:
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> If you mean 'a file that contains a specific string', use
> grep for that.
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> Davide
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| Jeff Schwab 2004-03-10, 11:34 pm |
| Bing Du wrote:
Bing: When I used Solaris (7,8), I used the command 'mg' quite often
for this purpose. But I don't see 'mg' on RedHat.
Davide: If you mean 'a file that contains a specific string', use grep
for that.
Bing: Great. I've never used 'grep' recursively. Thanks much for
the heads-up.
 Make "find" to do the recursion, and use find's "-exec" option to
run grep.
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| Doug Freyburger 2004-03-11, 10:38 am |
| Bing Du wrote:
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> Great. I've never used 'grep' recursively.
man find looking for the -print and -type f switches.
man xargs to see how find turns any other program into using recursion.
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| Mark Daniels 2004-03-17, 4:41 pm |
| Example:
find / -exec grep "whatyourlookingfor" {} \; -print
Cheers,
Mark
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| hacker boy 2004-03-20, 10:37 am |
| find / -print | xargs grep "whateveryoulookinfer" -n -H $1
mdhmi@yahoo.com (Mark Daniels) wrote in message news:<7ee5b960.0403171222.6d170973@posting.google.com>...
> Example:
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> find / -exec grep "whatyourlookingfor" {} \; -print
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> Cheers,
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> Mark
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