ack-grep "is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep." On my Ubuntu system I installed it thus: "sudo apt-get install ack-grep". Once installed, you can find out more with "man ack-grep". Write, if you find trouble. -- Pat
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Scott Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone point me to a program or method that will search the files on > the hard drive for a character string. I use locate for a filename string > but I do not know how to search for a character string within a file. > > Thank you in advance. > > Scott Howard > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 P.O. Box 581 Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
