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  htihan

  4 years ago

  Thank you so much,
  
  It is one of those days.. I spent almost an hour for this.....
  
  Best, peace...
  Hal
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  Anonymous

  4 years ago

  that's great and all, but you dont get filenames
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  seacoder

  4 years ago

  find . -name "*" -exec grep <pattern> {} /dev/null ;
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  Anonymous

  3 years ago

  find /users/ -type f -name "*" -exec grep -ls sqlload {} ;
  It gives output like this:
  /users/hattb/shirley_test_file
  
  The -type f switch tells it to only look in text files.
  If you want to redirect the output to a file:
  find /users/hattb -type f -name "*" -exec grep -ls sqlload {} ; >out.txt
  
  Hope this helps,
  Shirley
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  Anonymous

  3 years ago

  It's so great. Thanks.
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  Anonymous

  2 years ago

  find|xargs grep 'search text'
  
  is easier to type :-)
  
  xargs rocks.
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  Anonymous

  2 years ago

  For those of you with a really stripped down config with no xargs and a find that doesn't support -exec, the old fashioned way:
  
  for i in `find <path>`; do grep <pattern> $i; done
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  Lee

  6 months ago

  This is a fantastic tip, thank you!
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