I want to search for a word from the root directory using grep command.
I am searching for a word called batch in cd /vol directory.The vol directory has so many sub-directories and I want to see all the files having the name as batch.
This what I tried ..
/vol/ % grep -i *batch*
But it is hanging ,and I didn't have anything returned.
Could someone help me out with this.


thanks.

use this

find . -type f|xargs grep -i <string>

find /vol -type f -name '*[Bb][Aa][Tt][Cc][Hh]*'

Hello

grep will take time because as u said there r many sub-directoires under the /vol directory .

It hangs because u have not specified any dir from which it would read
so it waits for some input from the standard input .

U can reduce the access time by giving a better regex like batch* or *batch .

Use find instead

find /vol/ -name '*batch*' -print


cheers

It worked .
Thanks for the help guys.


Thanks.