grep

[Pat Alvarado]

In article <1990Oct23.123025.18012 at kodak.kodak.com> tiefel at sunshine.Kodak.COM (Lenny Tiefel) writes:
>I have a main directory with hundreds of subdirectories, 
>and I want to find a file with a particular string, say "xyz"
>The grep command only works in one directory at a time. Is there
>a way of searching my whole directory structure to find a file
>with a particular string?

Try:

find . -type f -exec grep -l string {} \;

This will tell find to start from the current directory (.) and with
each file only (-type f) execute a grep with the -l option for your 
string. The grep -l option will only display the filename if the string
was found.


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