find a string

[peterchu]

I want to find the string "abc" in the path /etc like below script , but the reason only show the content of the file but not the file name , how can I know which file(s) contains the string ? thx.

#cd /etc
#find . -type f -exec grep -i "abc" {} \;

[Chris Wilshaw · Accepted solution]

Try

find . -type f -exec grep -il "abc" {} \;

or, if you're on HP-UX 11.*,

find . -type f -exec grep -il "abc" +

which is slightly faster in execution.

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

use grep -l "abc"

sks

[Mark Grant]

How about a simple..


"cd /etc;grep abc *"

This will give you the line with the contents and the file name.

You could get cleverer though with

"grep abc * | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u"

This will give you just the filenames

[Bruno Ganino]

This works
cd /etc
find . -type f -print -exec grep -i "" {} \;

Bye
Bruno

[Mark Grant]

I think we've all been outshone but sanjay on this one Bruno :)

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
This is how it works for me:
# ll
total 32
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 2 Jul 7 16:45 one
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 2 Jul 7 16:45 two
# grep 1 *
one:1
# cat one
1
# cat two
2
#

So it show me the string as well as the file name.

Regards,

[florence mathon lermusi]

you can also use the -print option

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
Dear peterchu,
Please don't forget to assign points.
This is from your profile
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Regards,

[Bruno Ganino]

Else with this script:

cd /etc
for i in $(find . -type f)
do
tipo_fich=$(file $i|grep "abc")
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
echo "Filename = $i">>/tmp/fich.out
grep -n "abc" $i>>/tmp/fich.out
fi
done

HTH
Bruno

[Fred Ruffet]

find /etc -type f | xargs grep -il "abc"
would maybe be better (only one grep process)

I suppose that your want subdirectories. If not, use
grep -il "abc" *

Regards,

Fred

[Bharat Katkar]

grep "xyz" * | cut -d ":" -f 1

[Muthukumar_5]

Hai,

If you want to do in the /etc/ directory and not in it's sub directory then,

grep 'abc' /etc/*

If you want to do it in recursive manner then,

grep 'abc' `find -name "*"` or
grep 'abc' `find -type "*"`

It will search in all files. Your requirement is having a problem that search operation of abc will be done including objects too. It will prompt garbage symbols etc...!!!

Another way you can do is,

find . -type f -exec <script-name> {} \;

Use the {} value as a file name, make the script to grep the content for that.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
filename=$1

echo "$filaname $(grep -q 'abc' $filename)"

Regards,
Muthukumar.