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Old 05-10-2010
Serach a pattern
Hi,

I am trying to find a particular patter in multiple UNIX files (also contain system files,hidden files and normal files)

i am now using
CMD: egrep -ali 'pattern' *

i am not getting the required result, i just need files path and finename

Naveen
# 2  
Old 05-10-2010
Code:
egrep -li 'pattern' $( ls -a /tmp/tmp1/*)

Replace /tmp/tmp1 by path to files
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Old 05-10-2010
This cmd is not looking into .ini,.cshrc ....ectc files.and even not looking into sub directories.

egrep -li 'pattern' $`( ls -a /tmp/tmp1/*)` >> files2.txt

Naveen
# 4  
Old 05-10-2010
Try
Code:
find . | xargs grep -li 'pattern' 2>/dev/null

 
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