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Hey,

I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within
it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the
certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please?

Thanks a lot in advance!
Rocky

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Search certain string in a directory

Submitted by jeffd on Mon, 2007-04-30 01:00.

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, rocky wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within
> it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the
> certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Rocky
>
>

find ~/tmp/ -type f -exec grep -l mystring {} \;

this will recursivly look for files in ~/tmp/ and print out files that
have mystring in them.

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Search certain string in a directory

Submitted by Steve Kemp on Mon, 2007-04-30 02:00.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:54:44PM -0700, Jeff D wrote:

> >I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within
> >it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the
> >certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please?

> find ~/tmp/ -type f -exec grep -l mystring {} \;
>
> this will recursivly look for files in ~/tmp/ and print out files that
> have mystring in them.

Of course grep has a -R flag for recursive operation ...

grep -R "some regexp" .

or.

rgrep "some string" .

Steve
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