Akemi Yagi wrote: >> 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 \; If you are using GNU grep (well, you are using CentOS), grep -ri "foo" dir/to/search/in seems much shorter to me. Cheers, Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081006/0e206a3a/attachment-0005.sig>