MHR wrote:

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:

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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:

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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Bo Lynch blynch@ameliaschools.com wrote:

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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.