search script???

[KO kwang tae]

hello !

i want to find the file.
but i can't remember file name. only i know file contents.

so, i want to make shell script searching file contents that i find in all files

do you happen to know?
please~ help~

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

you can always do. Go into the top level directory and do

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

HTH
Umapathy

[Darren Prior]

Hi,

There are better ways, but a quick and dirty approach could be:

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

or

find / -type f | xargs grep -l yoursearchstring

regards,

Darren.

[raju_5]

Let's assume that you know a word "searchfile" and you want to find out the file name which has that word in it. Use

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

If you want to list the search word from all file, the exclude the -l (ell) option
ie,

find / -type f -exec searchfile {} \;