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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers using grep to find a value in current dir and sub dirs? Post 79413 by reborg on Wednesday 27th of July 2005 04:09:27 PM
Old 07-27-2005
The questions is answered about one a week on these forums. Please use the search functionality before posting.

But just this once I'll repost the answer.

Code:
find . -type f -exec grep -l "somesearchstring" {} /dev/null \;

or
Code:
find . -type f | xargs grep -l somesearchstring

 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

zgrep

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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