On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:11:10PM +0800, Eduardo Tongson wrote: > > I want to know what tools are available on Linux that allows me to > > find files which contain a certain string on a directory full of > > source codes (possibly one that uses grep). Thanks! > > find + xargs + grep > ex. > find /home/shae/src -type f -print | xargs grep -i [strings]
Hrmm... how about $ grep -lr 'PornAdminDotNet' /home/shae/src/* ? That returns a list of matching files, but can be tweaked to show matching lines and the matching files (remove 'l'). --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
