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Loop till you find a string in a file <-- Need Help New to Unix Scripting
Guys - I am new to Unix scripting and am in need for a script that does the following. I have bits and pieces created and tested but i am just having a little difficult time getting it all together.

- Loop through till it finds a string in a specific file.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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To find a string in specific file :-
Quote:
grep <string to find> <filename>
To find a string in all the files in specific directory
Quote:
grep <string to find> *
To find a string in all the files in directories and sub directories.
Quote:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep <string to find>
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