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Experts,

i need your help to made an enhance query using the existing one. i'm using a command "find . -exec grep -l 'search string' {} \;" to search a particular sting within the file within a folder. Basically, my idea is to fine tune my search. What i want is, instead of searching all files within a folder can it be possible that the my query searches only those fileNAME which ends with particular string?

eg. below are the files name within a folder.
ICH860_20080522-221757_377
ICH860_20080713-200443_364
ICH860_20080724-013915_491
ICH860_20080724-020524_828
ICH860_20080805-063200_377
ICH860_20081208-061849_377

i want my query "find . -exec grep -l 'search string' {} \;" to search only those filesname which ends with '_377'. If this happen, my search will give me 3 files names only.

I hope i used simple/easy language. If still, its not clear please do let me know.

Gaurav.

try:

Code:

find . -name '*_377' -exec grep -l 'search string' {} \;

how about adding -type f option as well?

Thanks Yogesh!! it works. My search time is drastically reduced.