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# 1  
Old 02-18-2007
Search about word
Dear

I want syntax to help me to find text or word inside files.

i written the following syntax but i dont take what i need
( find ~ -name ahmad -print )

i need syntax to explain or launch more detail about all files and folder contain ( ahmd ) inside it.
# 2  
Old 02-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by abu_hassan
Dear

I want syntax to help me to find text or word inside files.

i written the following syntax but i dont take what i need
( find ~ -name ahmad -print )

i need syntax to explain or launch more detail about all files and folder contain ( ahmd ) inside it.
Code:
find /directory/to/search -exec grep "ahmad" {} /dev/null \;

# 3  
Old 02-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
Code:
find /directory/to/search -exec grep "ahmad" {} /dev/null \;

I hope you don't have any named pipes within that tree.

On some Linux version if you use this command on /proc it will even result in a system crash.

Better:

Code:
find /directory/to/search -type f -exec grep -il {} \;

# 4  
Old 02-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by sb008
I hope you don't have any named pipes within that tree.

On some Linux version if you use this command on /proc it will even result in a system crash.

Better:

Code:
find /directory/to/search -type f -exec grep -il {} \;


Oops, typo

Code:
find /directory/to/search -type f -exec grep -il ahmad {} \;

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