Search an entire drive for character string

[Vikram Goyal]

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From: "chrisl at xp.etowns.net" <chrisl at xp.etowns.net>
Sent: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:19:10AM -0600
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Search an entire drive for character string


> You can try:
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> grep 'string' /* -R
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> fergus wrote:
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> >Is there a way (dunno, maybe using dd and grep?) that an entire drive,
> >and not just the files on it, can be scanned for a character string?
> >Fergus
> >
> > 
> >
> 
How about baobab from extras
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