All,
I've seached until I've got a headache and no answers. I've found a
couple of close ones but not exactly what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for a simple cmd line or script to search a directory tree
with all of it's files and I am looking for one word in the files.
I've tried gawk, but can't seem to get it to traverse the sub
directories.
This is a just an example gawk '/hda1/ { print $0 }' /etc/mtab say I
don't know the word is in /etc/mtab
but I know the word is in etc. How do a search a directory.

thx in advance!

2006-12-5, 11:26(-08), baltoinfo:
> All,
> I've seached until I've got a headache and no answers. I've found a
> couple of close ones but not exactly what I'm looking for.
>
> I'm looking for a simple cmd line or script to search a directory tree
> with all of it's files and I am looking for one word in the files.
> I've tried gawk, but can't seem to get it to traverse the sub
> directories.
> This is a just an example gawk '/hda1/ { print $0 }' /etc/mtab say I
> don't know the word is in /etc/mtab
> but I know the word is in etc. How do a search a directory.
[...]

find /etc -type f -exec gawk /hda1/ {} +

With GNU grep:

grep -rhDskip hda1 /etc

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Stéphane

In article <1165346796.331614.313050@79g2000cws.googlegroups. com>,
baltoinfo <funnsun34@hotmail.com> wrote:
>All,
>I've seached until I've got a headache and no answers. I've found a
>couple of close ones but not exactly what I'm looking for.
>
>I'm looking for a simple cmd line or script to search a directory tree
>with all of it's files and I am looking for one word in the files.
>I've tried gawk, but can't seem to get it to traverse the sub
>directories.
>This is a just an example gawk '/hda1/ { print $0 }' /etc/mtab say I
>don't know the word is in /etc/mtab
>but I know the word is in etc. How do a search a directory.
>
>thx in advance!
>

(cd to the top level of the tree you want to search)
find | xargs grep yourstring

(with all the usual caveats about how you have to do more than this if
you have files with spaces, etc, etc - left as an exercise for the reader)

baltoinfo <funnsun34@hotmail.com> wrote:
> All,
> I've seached until I've got a headache and no answers. I've found a
> couple of close ones but not exactly what I'm looking for.
>
> I'm looking for a simple cmd line or script to search a directory tree
> with all of it's files and I am looking for one word in the files.
> I've tried gawk, but can't seem to get it to traverse the sub
> directories.
> This is a just an example gawk '/hda1/ { print $0 }' /etc/mtab say I
> don't know the word is in /etc/mtab
> but I know the word is in etc. How do a search a directory.
>
> thx in advance!

man find xargs
man grep

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