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Old 01-15-2011
how to find a string in file under multiple level dirs

Hi, i am asking a command to find a string in file(s) from multiple level directory structures.

help would be really appreciated.
# 2  
Old 01-15-2011
Isn't that the same question you asked in your previous thread (7 months ago)?

Find a word from multiple level files on Linux
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Old 01-15-2011
well caught Smilie
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Old 01-15-2011
Generic answer as O/P has not stated Operating System accurately or Shell.

Code:
search="our search string"
#
find . -type f -print | while read filename
do
         found=`grep "${search}" "${filename}"`
         if [ ! "${found}""X" = "X" ]
         then
               echo "File ${filename} : ${found}"
         fi
done




Ps. I only posted this because all the answers to the original post were wrong.

Last edited by methyl; 01-15-2011 at 08:01 PM.. Reason: spellin
# 5  
Old 01-16-2011
The following
$ find . -type f -exec grep -l string {} \;
Will list all the file in the current directory and in sub-directories containing the string.
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