Peter Ruskin wrote: > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Isn't there a search tool for looking for certain > text. > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:58:04 +0100 > From: Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Monday 22 Oct 2001 15:50, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > >>Le Lundi 22 Octobre 2001 13:40, David scribit : >> >>>This would greatly help me sometimes in troubleshooting cooker stuff. >>>I would swear that I see it during install, but can't find where I >>>wrote it. There was some tool that would search the files for the >>>occurance of certain text you entered. Like if you wanted to find >>>something that said. "depmod -a -F /boot/System.map" >>> >>>I guess I need to keep a list of things that don't appear in the >>>menu. >>> >>grep ? >> >>grep "depmod -a -F /boot/System.map" /etc ? >> > > or > sudo grep -r "depmod -a -F /boot/System.map" /etc/* > > -- > Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. rm -rf /bin/laden > Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). > Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586, kernel > 2.4.8-26mdk-pnr-win4lin. > XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk. KDE: 2.2.1. Qt: 2.3.1. Uptime: 5:51 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > >
Ya, I had to add the * and recursive to make it work the way I wanted. I just installed a program called 'reXgrep' from freshmeat. Going to try that out and see how it works. Graphical.
