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From: bad@atrain.sw.stratus.com (Bruce Dumes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Message-ID: <2822@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 17:43:54 GMT
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In article <THOMAS.90Oct23163234@uplog.uppsala.telesoft.se> thomas@uppsala.telesoft.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:
>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

I don't think this is what Lenny was asking for.  I think "xyz" is a string
*IN* the file, not in the file name.

I have a little script called "locate_string".

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#
# Written by Bruce Dumes Sept 1990
#

if test !  "$2"
then    echo "Usage: locate_string search_dir string"
        exit
fi

temp=`find $1  -name "*" -type f -print`

grep $2 $temp

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Bruce
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