find a string in files

28/10/2006, 21h42

Hi
$ grep -FHrn string /path/
will find occurrences of the string in files recursively, but will
also find "stringing" and "strings".
how can I limit it to only "string"

thanks

28/10/2006, 21h50

Gary Wessle wrote:
> Hi
> $ grep -FHrn string /path/
> will find occurrences of the string in files recursively, but will
> also find "stringing" and "strings".
> how can I limit it to only "string"
>

grep -FHwire string /path/

> thanks

np

P.S.: It's called a word boundary.

HTH,
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28/10/2006, 21h42	#1
Gary Wessle Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	find a string in files Hi $ grep -FHrn string /path/ will find occurrences of the string in files recursively, but will also find "stringing" and "strings". how can I limit it to only "string" thanks

28/10/2006, 21h50	#2
Stephan Grein Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: find a string in files Gary Wessle wrote: > Hi > $ grep -FHrn string /path/ > will find occurrences of the string in files recursively, but will > also find "stringing" and "strings". > how can I limit it to only "string" > grep -FHwire string /path/ > thanks np P.S.: It's called a word boundary. HTH, -- Stephan Grein, <stephan at stephan minus rockt dot de> https://stephan-rockt.de GnuPG-Key-ID: 0xF8C275D4 FingerPrint: 5B6F 134A 189B A24D 342B 0961 8D4B 0230 F8C2 75D4

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