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Old 09-28-2005
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find a file

Hello all,
Please I'm trying to look for a string in any file exists ..and the search will be for all the directories on the server .. I would you this command
find / -type f -exec grep "199006307" i/dev/null {} \;
but the problem that are most of the files are compressed and this command will not search through compressed files.
would you please help me how to do this .
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