Must be April 1. Try it, and you'll learn that gnu grep has the "-r" flag that lets you recurse into directories and that grep looks in files. On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Hal Wigoda wrote: > sorry, but that is NOT correct either. > > he is looking for files that content the string "index.html" > within the file, > NOT the file name. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "urgrue" <urgrue@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "admin" <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:50 AM > Subject: Re: Questions! > > > > i always simply use: > > grep -r index.html /some/path/* -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@xxxxxxxxxxxx BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html