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

[Casey Bralla <MailList@NerdWorld.org>]

Thanks, your idea (and the others) did the trick.  (I didn't know grep would 
look *through* files.  I always just use it to filter through a pipe)


On Wednesday 15 October 2008 7:53:31 pm Dan Widyono wrote:
> > find <directory> -exec grep -l <string> {} \;
>
> Or with only one tool, grep -rl <string> /path/to/top/directory
>
> 8-) Dan W.
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