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Re: [PLUG] CLI for "find" text string in an unknown file
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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?
The tool you are looking for is called "grep". You can find out more
about it by executing "man grep" on your command line.
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Toby DiPasquale
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