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Operating Systems Solaris Search for string in a directory with binaries exclusion Post 302263774 by mdjebbi on Tuesday 2nd of December 2008 12:58:02 PM
Old 12-02-2008
Search for string in a directory with binaries exclusion

Hi all,

My need is to search for a given string "toto" within a directory, but the search should ignore binary and db files.

It is in fact, a combination of xargs grep that I didn't succeed to manage.
Let we say that we are under /etc/ and we want to search for all included files (except binary and db) that contain the string "toto". What will be the command?

Can someone help me please.

Thanks.
 

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sagasu(1)																 sagasu(1)

NAME
sagasu - GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files SYNOPSIS
sagasu [string [dir]] DESCRIPTION
sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in a set of files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line. The search can recurse into subdirectories and can optionally ignore CVS directories. Two optional command-line arguments can be given: the first is the initial search string and the second is the directory whose files will be searched. If only one argument is given, it is taken as the search string. No search is actually started, but the appropriate fields are initialized. Any subsequent arguments are ignored. More documentation is available through the application's Help menu. OPTIONS
--help display a help page and exit --version display version information and exit LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. AUTHOR
Pierre Sarrazin See the Sagasu Home Page: http://sarrazip.com/dev/sagasu.html BUGS
The files to be searches are still assumed to be in Latin-1, not in UTF-8. The same goes for the command-line arguments and the terminal to which Sagasu is connected, if applicable. HISTORY
Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search." June 19th, 2010 sagasu(1)
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