Daniel Vogel wrote:
Give Les the prize:-)
I had two suggestions:
- gnome-search-tool
- find ./ -name "*" -exec grep "string" {} /dev/null ;
Someone suggested even a better command solution than 2. above but I can't remember what it is. --
find . -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep "string"
This selects only files (not symlinks), and copes well wifh path names containing spaces and other difficult characters.
Here are two small improvements: find . -type f -print0 |xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty grep -H "string"
Otherwise, xargs may run grep with no filename args, and if grep has one filename arg it won't list the file name (the point of using /dev/null in some other examples).
Use of xargs reduces the number of times grep is loaded and run, sometimes an important matter.
should work.
..err...my sugestion is much simple...
grep -e <string> <files>
the for example: grep -e Daniel *.html
This doesn't descend subdirectories (the point of using -r).
Aa compatibility note. Probably not important to all, but I think recursion is fairly new (say. more recent than RHL 5.x or 6.x) - I don't remember seeing it before and I did look for it, and I'm sure I've asked about it. There may be other greps out there that don't support recursion (or -H for that matter).