Bob Heise on 16 Oct 2008 13:00:32 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] CLI for "find" text string in an unknown file


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:
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> I'm looking for a command line tool that will search through text files and
> find the ones with a specific string.   So far, Google has not helped me.
> Anybody know how to do this?

You might try ack -a
http://petdance.com/ack/

-Bob

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