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 me please?

Thanks a lot in advance!
Rocky


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On 29 Apr 2007 20:04:03 -0700, rocky <rocky2winnie@gmail.com> 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 me please?
>

>From the manpage of grep(1):
grep, egrep, fgrep, rgrep - print lines matching a pattern

The -r option to grep might fit your need. Also see find(1) if you
find yourself needing something more selective.

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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 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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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 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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