Re: Search certain string in a directory
- From: Jeff D <fixedored@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:54:44 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, rocky wrote:
Hey,
I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within
it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the
certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Rocky
find ~/tmp/ -type f -exec grep -l mystring {} \;
this will recursivly look for files in ~/tmp/ and print out files that have mystring in them.
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