Re: [CentOS] find

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 16:04 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:

tony.chamberlain@lemko.com a écrit :

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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?

grep is your friend. Let's say you are looking for the character string 'UserDir' below your /etc directory. Then you would simply do:

[root@grossebertha ~]# grep -R UserDir /etc/

If that might put out a lot and you want only a list of file names, add

-l or --files-with-matches

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