find a string

[Ali Syed Masoud]

How to find a string in a any file in any directory ?

Actually what happened is that a post exec script failed because of a wrong directory specified on an unknown script.
i know what is that directory

Need help.

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Find . -type f|xargs grep -il string


Will give the name of all files where the
string ocurs relative to the current directory.


steve Steel

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

#find -type f -exec grep -l '' \;

This command let you search into a specific through regular file type a specific char string specified in

Rgds.

[Trond Haugen]

Another option if you know the directory is:
cd
grep *

Regards,
Trond

[KapilRaj]

grep 'string' *

kaps

[Ali Syed Masoud]

the following doesnt work !

find -type f -exec grep -l '' \;

regards,
ali.

[Trond Haugen]

Could you be more spesific.
Exactly what do you type and what do you get.

Regards,
Trond

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This will work:

# find /dir -type f -print|xargs grep yourstring

...the use of 'xargs' is also less resource-intensive than 'exec'. Notice the addition of the '-print' option to 'find' to output the filenames.

Regards!

...JRF...

[john korterman]

Hi,
you need to include curly braces in the command string: The file names, in which the grep command will search, will be put in there, e.g.:

find -type f -exec grep -l '' {} \;

else grep will just hang.

regards,
John K.

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi again,

This command works fine! Let try be too explicit. Supose that you need search the "loopback" string into your "/etc" directory, the sintax must be:

#find /etc -type f -exec grep -l 'loopback' {} \;

In my case the string "loopbak" was found in:
/etc/hosts
/etc/services
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf
/etc/hpC2400/arraymon.dest
/etc/opt/resmon/log/client.log
/etc/netconfig
/etc/ppp/Dialers.ex
/etc/networks
/etc/sam/reg_tm.db
/etc/#hosts

Rgds.

[K.Vijayaragavan.]

If you want to search for the ocurance of the string "CPU" in any files in the system, then you can use the command,

# find / -type f | xargs grep "CPU"

[Paul Sperry]

cd /
find . -print | xargs grep *

[Ali Syed Masoud]

find / -type f | xargs grep "CPU"

find /etc -type f -exec grep -l 'loopback' {} \;

the above both work really fine

thanks everybody.

ali.

[Trond Haugen]

If you are happy with the answers you should assign points accordingly.

Regards,
Trond