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Old 05-25-2012
How To Pipe Find To Grep?
hi

what wrong with my syntax here?

Code:
find / -name "*dhcp*" | grep -l -r 'timeout'

thanks
# 2  
Old 05-25-2012
Hi,

try with

Code:
find / -name "*dhcp*" | grep  'timeout'

BR//

nitesh
# 3  
Old 05-25-2012
You're grepping on the filename, not the file contents.

Use -exec grep timeout {}, or pipe the find output through xargs.

i.e.
Code:
find / -name "*dhcp*" -exec grep timeout {} \;

And do you really want to search the entire system? That could take seconds, it could take hours, depending.
# 4  
Old 05-25-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
You're grepping on the filename, not the file contents.

Use -exec grep timeout {}, or pipe the find output through xargs.

i.e.
Code:
find / -name "*dhcp*" -exec grep timeout {} \;

And do you really want to search the entire system? That could take seconds, it could take hours, depending.
To expand on this, if you want the file name, add "l" to the grep statement and you might want to ignore case:

Code:
find / -name "*dhcp*" -exec grep -il timeout {} \;

Last edited by dagamier; 05-25-2012 at 02:04 PM.. Reason: fixed my find
 
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