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[Mark Treen_1]

This may be a little simple but it has stumped me!! Does anybody know a command and syntax where I can search every file on the server for a word!!!!

e.g. I need to see which files contain the word 'test'

Please help :-)

[Stefan Farrelly]

You will have to be careful only to search text files as if you search binary files (executables or databases/indexes) you will pick up control characters which will completely screw up your display/window.

This works for me;

find . -type f -print -exec grep -i "" {} \;

Send the output to a file and when done edit it and search for your string as this lists every single file as it searches it and only if it finds your string do you want to lookup the preceeding line which is the name of the file containing it.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

quick and dirty:
find . -type f | xargs grep test

[Mark Treen_1]

Guys

Many thanks for the help! Can I just clarify the comment by Stefan - I do only want to see the files and paths that contain the string and not each file it searches.... should I stil use same criteria then??

[Vicente Sanchez_3 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try this:

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

HTH, Vicente.

[Ian Box]

How about:

find / -type f | grep -l test {} \;

The grep option -l only lists the filename if the file contains the requested text.

[Mehdi_1]

Hi

This what I normaly use myself:

find . -name '*' -exec grep -l 'Your test word' {} \;

Also there is a program called findgrep, it is using perl and it very handy. you can downlaoed the depot and install on your system, it is good program to have.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/findgrep-1.0

cheers

Mehdi

[Ian Box]

Oops, that should have been:

find / -type f -exec grep -l test {} \;

[Stefan Farrelly]

Yeah, just add in the -l option to grep and remove the -print;

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

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

Hi,

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x8d9619434a69d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

I know I am late, but a similar query was asked just yesterday - link above.

- ramd.