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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Searching for a specific phrase on Unix server Post 61685 by zazzybob on Monday 7th of February 2005 03:18:00 PM
Old 02-07-2005
If you mean phrases inside files, something like

find / -type f | xargs grep "My phrase looks like this"

should do the job. If you're not sure of the case of your phrase, use grep -i.

If you're talking about the filenames themselves, standard find will do the trick

find / -name "*some_part_of_filename*" -type f

There is more than one way to do this, by the way Smilie

Cheers
ZB
 

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ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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