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Old 07-07-2008
More find command questions

Last week I was helped in finding certain filenames and removing them using the following command and it worked fine.

find /path/to/files -name 'WQ*' -type f -exec rm -f {} \;


This week, I need to find certain characters within a certain file. For example, I need to find scripts that contain 'FA8439'. That is a file prefix, or qualifier name that is added to certain files. I'd like to find all the scripts that contain this as the prefix will be changing soon. I tried the above find command but only gave me file names. I need all instances within scripts. Thanks.
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Old 07-07-2008
Code:
find /path/to/files -type f -exec grep -l FA8439 {} /dev/null \;

# 3  
Old 07-08-2008
Thank you sir, not that different from the other find syntax Smilie

I will post back after I use it.
 
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