find in conjuction with grep

[Kevin Old]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:43:10 +0200, Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Am Mi, den 11.08.2004 schrieb Kevin Old um 20:31:
> 
> > I've been using
> > find . -exec grep "phrase I want" {} \;
> 
> Not the best way. Using -exec is problematic.
> 
> > for quite a while to search recursively through directories and files
> > to find a phrase or word.
> >
> > The results I get back are simply the line(s) that contained the
> > phrase, but no path or filename.
> 
> find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep "string"
> 
> > I'd thought about the -name flag, but I can't seem to figure out how
> > to use it, though it is more for using to search for file names rather
> > than display the name, it seems.
> 
> find /path/to/search/under -name "*string*"
> 
> will find all object names with "string" anywhere in, like "stringfoo"
> or "foostringbar" or just "string".
> 

I was unclear.  I'd like to recursively search directories in order to
find "phrase I want" inside files, not as the file name.

Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin Old
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