Solaris

Hi all,

My need is to search for a given string "toto" within a directory, but the search should ignore binary and db files.

It is in fact, a combination of xargs grep that I didn't succeed to manage.
Let we say that we are under /etc/ and we want to search for all included files (except binary and db) that contain the string "toto". What will be the command?

Can someone help me please.

Thanks.

/usr/sfw/bin/ggrep will do this
Use options:
-R (for recursive)
--binary-files=without-match (ignore binary files)

If you have GNU grep:

Code:

grep -I

Regards

/usr/sfw/bin/ggrep is GNU grep
And yes the -I flag is the same as "--binary-files=without-match"

i prefer the use of `egrep` as i have found it to be faster in my scripts then `grep`.

Thanks Sed, but I cannot find ggrep on my solaris 10 installation, is there a dedicated package or an installation option? We have here 3 solaris 10 servers, and I can't find this command on any.

Hi Pupp,
can you give me an example how to use the egrep? Let's try with the example given in my fist post : we are under /etc/ and we want to search for all included files (except binary and db) that contain the string "toto".

Thanks,