Newby Question FC4

[Paul Howarth]

rengland at europa.com wrote:
>>chalonec wrote:
>>
>>>I have installed FC4 and am looking for a command line way to search all
>>>files in all directories and sub-directories on a disk for files that
>>>contain a certain text string such as the word gateway or mode or any
>>>word. There are so many config files on Linux that if I had this
>>>capability I could find out which one had the information I needed so I
>>>could then begin to identify where I might want to look to fix or
>>>troubleshoot something other than the log files.  If this were Windows,
>>>I would just use the text search string gui by right-clicking start.
>>>
>>>I have tried find, grep, locate, egrep, man, and the Internet and have
>>>had varying levels of success but none seem to be consistent.  There are
>>>a dizzying number of options,
>>>
>>>I am pretty sure grep or find should work but I can't figure out how.
>>>
>>>Can someone help ?
>>
>>A case-insensitive search for the word 'gateway' in directory /etc and
>>all subdirectories:
>>
>>$ grep -i -r 'gateway' /etc
>>
>>Paul.
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> 
> 
> But the OP is looking for a specific string in a file in the directory
> structure.  I believe what is wanted is:
> 
> find . -exec grep -i -l  gateway {} \;
> 
> This will search from where you are in the directory structure (.) in a
> case insensitive manner (-i) and return the file name only  (-l).  The {}
> are correct, as is the \;  (backslash semicolon).  Include them as is and
> modify the string "gateway" as needed.

Or just use:

$ grep -i -r -l 'gateway' /etc

Paul.