On Sat Feb 01 2003 at 08:11, "Bruce Douglas" wrote:
> A simple question... trying to do a search for a string in a file... i don't
> know where on my harddrive the file is, nor do i know the name!! thought the
> command should be something like:
> #grep -F -r "string" /
>
> Obviously, it didn't work. In looking at the man page/examples on the net, I
> can't quite get the command right.....
find / -type f -exec grep "string" /dev/null {} \;
(Although that's ugly, it will go through *every* file on your
system... if you can narrow it down to a specific directory tree
then every file on your system won't need to be read).
> Thanks for any help!
>
> -Bruce
Cheers
Tony
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