Need unix command file HELP!

[Paul Lew]

>All the folk who are responding that the way to get the file names
>of files containing a particular string are kind of forgetting that
>the grep family does  n o t  automatically print out file names.
>This:
>
>find / -exec fgrep this-is-the-string '{}' \;
>
>will give a file full of lines containing this-is-the-string.  Try:
>

	Notice that if you do grep on more than one files, file
	names will be displayed.  A simple solution to the problem
	is to use:

	 find / -exec fgrep this-is-the-string /dev/null '{}' \;

	and YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE ANY SCRIPT to do so.
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