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Old 11-06-2006
searching word in files
hi all
i want to search some word in file but i want that it will search in all the files that i have
in all the directories i do'nt know the name of the file
i know that grep command want some specified file
in which command shell i used
thanks
# 2  
Old 11-06-2006
searching word in files
hi all
i want to search some word in file but i want that it will search in all the files that i have
in all the directories i do'nt know the name of the file
i know that grep command want some specified file
in which command shell i used
thanks
# 3  
Old 11-06-2006
Dont duplicate threads. I have merged your threads.

Here is one version of the find solution.
Code:
find . -name "*.*" -exec grep "search string" {} /dev/null \;

 
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