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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Simple grep question Post 302519076 by thegeek on Tuesday 3rd of May 2011 02:13:31 AM
Old 05-03-2011
grep only the errors.log

I would suggest you to combine find command, and grep.


Code:
find /opt/application -name 'errors.log' -exec grep "texttosearch" {} \;

So this will search only in the errors.log file.
 

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