Hi! Searching for a text string in UNIX

skwadim · #1 (**permalink**) 12-22-2006

Hi!

I'm new here and glad to meet everyone!

I've been wrestling with a problem lately however! How do I recursively (recursive means to keep going through the subdirectories until no more are there) search a bunch of textfiles in a long directory structure for a specific string.. but only output the filenames in which the string was found, and NOT the actual line of text. (Grep returns the line of text I believe)

so just to return the filename, not the line of text. howzit done?

thanks

Skwadim RabinowitX

Glenn Arndt · #2 (**permalink**) 12-22-2006

grep -l (that's the letter "ELL") should do what you want.

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