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From: thomas@uppsala.telesoft.se (Thomas Tornblom)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Message-ID: <THOMAS.90Oct23163234@uplog.uppsala.telesoft.se>
Date: 23 Oct 90 15:32:34 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.123025.18012@kodak.kodak.com>
Sender: thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom)
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In-Reply-To: tiefel@sunshine.Kodak.COM's message of 23 Oct 90 12:30:25 GMT

In article <1990Oct23.123025.18012@kodak.kodak.com> tiefel@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Lenny Tiefel) writes:


   I have a main directory with hundreds of subdirectories, 
   and I want to find a file with a particular string, say "xyz"
   The grep command only works in one directory at a time. Is there
   a way of searching my whole directory structure to find a file
   with a particular string?

   Thanks.

find <dir> -type f -name '*xyz*' -print

Thomas
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