Finding files containing 'string'

[fredex]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:42:19PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I need to list all files that refer to my network-name, but I can't work 
> out a command to do it.  I thought I would have to cat everything, 
> piping through grep 'string', but that doesn't search recursively, the 
> help-file doesn't show a recursive flag, and I'm not sure that it would 
> actually give me the filenames anyway.
> 
> Help, please?
> 
> Anne
> -- 
> Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

Do this as root.

To see a list of filenames containing the target string:

find / -name \* -exec grep -l 'put your string here' {} \;

if you want to see the actual file content containing the string, simply
remove the -l option from grep.

Fred

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