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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find files containing text Post 10349 by LivinFree on Tuesday 13th of November 2001 07:28:30 AM
Old 11-13-2001
Wow, for the entire system will take quite some time... but here's one way:
(note: I piped it to a file, in case there's lots of hits. You can view the /tmp/bigsearch.log to see the outputs. Also, you'll get a lot of errors and be very limited in your search if it is not executed by root)
Code:
find / -type f -print | xargs grep "hello" >> /tmp/bigsearch.log 2>/dev/null

Hope that helps...

Also, it may slow your system considerably, depending on the power of your machine. I wouldn't recommend running that on a production or even needed box...
 

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bidentd

BIDENTD(8)																BIDENTD(8)

NAME

       bidentd - Bisqwit's TCP/IP Identification Protocol daemon

SYNOPSIS

       bidentd [ -qq | -q | -v | -vv | -vvv ]

DESCRIPTION

       Bisqwit's  identd  is a daemon for the intenet Identification Protocol described by RFC 1413.  It supports recursive IP masquerade, where a
       machine has Internet access through a masquerading machine which itself has Internet access through another masquerading  machine,  and	so
       on.  The program requires no setup (no config files required).  It is designed to be run from the Internet superserver (inetd).

       bidentd requires no command-line arguments, but some are supported though.  Explained below.

OPTIONS

       The  following options control the amount of information that is dumped to the system log. Options may be specified separately or in group:
       -qq equals -q -q.

       -qq    Output nothing to the log.

       -q     Output only fatal errors to the log.

       (no option)
	      If no option is specified, the log includes one line for every reponse sent in addition to any fatal errors.

       -v     Be a little more verbose than when no option is specified.

       -vv    Output everything that -v outputs and additional debug information.

       -vvv   Output a lot of debug information in addition to everything that -v outputs.

FILES

       /proc/net/tcp
	      This file is required by bidentd operation

       /proc/net/ip_masquerade
	      If masquerade support is desired, this file is needed.

       /proc/net/ip_conntrack
	      This file will be used for masquerading connection tracking if the kernel is from 2.4-series.

AUTHOR

       Bisqwit's identd was written by Joel Yliluoma <bisqwit@iki.fi>. Some enhancements and this manual page  were  added  by	Antti-Juhani  Kai-
       janaho.

								    2002-05-01								BIDENTD(8)
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