At 04:11 PM 12/25/01 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Ben Ocean wrote: > > > At 12:52 AM 12/26/01 +1000, you wrote: > > >On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Ben Ocean wrote: > > > > > > > Hi; > > > > I need to be able to search the files in a directory for a certain > word > > > and > > > > return the files that have it. What's the easy way to do this? > > > > > >grep -l word dir/* > > > > Just to make sure I have this right... > > grep <dash> <pipe> <my chosen word> <the directory it's in>/* > >that's not a pipe, that's an "ell". and you would be strongly >urged to read the man page for grep.
Apologies. I made the stupid mistake of thinking the O'Reilly book *UNIX In a Nutshell* would have all the pertinent info of a man page, but I was wrong. It didn't address this issue; the man page did. Thanks, BenO _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
