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[The Grey Wolf]

In article <24925 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbottin at atl.calstate.edu writes:
>tiefel at sunshine.Kodak.com asked for a way to searach a structure
>for files that have a string. Here are some probable solutions:
>
>The ultimate helper would be a little script called "hunter" perhaps
>: Usage:  hunter string directory
>if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo Usage: hunter string directory; exit 1; fi
>for d in $2/*
>do
>	if [ -d $d ]
>	then hunter $1 $d
>	elif grep $1 $d >/dev/null
>	then echo $d; grep $1 $d   # inefficient but avoids tmpfiles
>	fi
>done
>: disclaimer - this is a quick hack and needs testing.

Disclaimer noted.

Everyone seems to think that some sort of echo statement is needed for the
filenames.  Use

grep $string $file /dev/null

This way, the file containing the matching string is printed before the
match.

A portable way of doing this, though VERY inefficient is:
find . -type f -exec grep $string '{}' /dev/null \;

Shell solutions are trivial and left as an exercise to the imagination.
:-)
>
>Dick Botting CalState San Bernardino
>rbottin at atl.calstate.edu


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