On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Bo Lynch blynch@ameliaschools.com wrote:
On Fri, October 3, 2008 10:00 am, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
I am looking for something similar to the windows SEARCH FILES comman with the option "files containing ..." (that is where I can specify a string and it will find all files containing that string -- not just having the string as part of the name but actually containing it in the text).
Is there some way to do this?
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>
It will show the file names as well as the lines that contain the text.
Akemi