Re: [SLE] grep

From: Brett Russ (icycle_at_charter.net)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:53:02 -0500
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    N1UAN Bob wrote:
    > Wonder if someone could give me the way to grep for an word within all
    > files on my system like the filename would be XXXX.XX

    find / -type f -iname '????\.??' | xargs grep -i 'word'

    will do a case insensitive file match for all files with 4 chars
    followed by a literal '.' followed by 2 chars then do a case insensitive
    search for 'word' on those files.

    HTH,
    BR 

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