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Old 02-07-2005
Searching for a specific phrase on Unix server
Is it possible to search all the file systems on a Unix server for a specific phrase?
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Old 02-07-2005
If you mean phrases inside files, something like

find / -type f | xargs grep "My phrase looks like this"

should do the job. If you're not sure of the case of your phrase, use grep -i.

If you're talking about the filenames themselves, standard find will do the trick

find / -name "*some_part_of_filename*" -type f

There is more than one way to do this, by the way Smilie

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