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Old 12-04-2006
List all file which have specified word

How can I know which file have my specified word ?
Thank you
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Old 12-04-2006
SEARCH Plz Smilie

man grep
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Old 12-04-2006
Or if you need to go through a number of files you may,

find /dirname -type f -print -exec grep "string" {} \;
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Old 12-06-2006
Thk very much
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Old 01-03-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by kapilraj
Or if you need to go through a number of files you may,

find /dirname -type f -print -exec grep "string" {} \;
Can you explain what does this do??
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