topic Re: Search inside text files.... in Operating System - HP-UX

Search inside text files....

Christine S Feeley — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:33:22 GMT

I am looking for a text file that contains a particular word in the text of the file itself, not the file name. I know the file is located in one of four rather large directory structures.

Is there a command or series of commands that will give me a list of all the files that contain this word and the files location?

Re: Search inside text files....

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:47:00 GMT

find /example -exec grep -l 'Where are you' {} \;

That output can be redirected to a file.

Thanks.

SEP

Re: Search inside text files....

Pete Randall — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:48:33 GMT

find /dir1 /dir2 /dir3 /dir4 -type f -exec grep -l "text_string" {} \;

Pete

Re: Search inside text files....

Steve Steel — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:48:58 GMT

Hi

find /dir -type f|xargs grep -il word

Make a subdirectory and use ln -s to make aliases for the 4 directories and you can start in one place with

find . -follow|xargs grep -il word

Either way you get the file names back

Steve Steel

Re: Search inside text files....

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:14:53 GMT

You can do it by using grep command with find as,

grep -n '/pattern or word/' `find $PWD -name "file-pattern"`

Try to use effective file pattern else fidn will try to check binary executable files too.

or use as like,

find . -type f -print |xargs grep xyz

If you like this, find command output will be used to search patter xyz on that.

Re: Search inside text files....

Christine S Feeley — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:48:19 GMT

Thanks for all the help....the first two returned a lot of errors. The last two replies worked well, and I found the file I was looking for.