MHR wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Bo Lynch
> > > <blynch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I would recommend taking a look at grep. THere are many ways
> > > > you can use it.
> > >
> > > One such example is:
> > >
> > > find . -type f -exec grep -il !* {} \; -exec grep -i !* {} \;
> > > -exec echo \;
> > >
> > > alias it to, say, findword and run: findword <text>
> >
> > Sorry, I missed the "!" in the above paste:
> >
> > find . -type f -exec grep -il \!* {} \; -exec grep -i \!* {} \;
> > -exec echo \;
>
> I tend to do this:
>
> find . -type f -exec grep <pattern> /dev/null {} \;
>
> The "/dev/null" is because grep doesn't show the file name unless
> there are at least two provided, and this accomplishes what Akemi's
> command above does but in a single command. Of course, it still takes
> forever if the directory whence the search begins is /.
Or you can do it like this:
find . -type f -exec grep -H <pattern> {} \;
>From the man page:
-H, --with-filename
Print the filename for each match.
--
Bowie
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