Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/06/2015 08:05, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is a better method of

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/07/2015 09:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:59:51 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 'cd' to the lowest dir which contains them all, then 'grep -r Check/Money Order *.php'. That will only search *.php files in the current directory, you need nope The shell expands the *.php to a list of matching files

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/06/2015 15:00, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is a better method of searching files? grep -R

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 07.06.2015 um 01:40 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 13:11:04 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to find a text string in them Check/Money Order 'cd' to the lowest dir which contains them all, then 'grep -r Check/Money Order *.php'.

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is a better method of

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
150606 Joseph wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to find a text string in them Check/Money Order 'cd' to the lowest dir which contains them all, then 'grep -r Check/Money Order *.php'. -- ,, SUPPORT

[gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Joseph
I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is a better method of searching files? -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/06/2015 18:45, Joseph wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is a better method of searching files? Define doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 13:11:04 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to find a text string in them Check/Money Order 'cd' to the lowest dir which contains them all, then 'grep -r Check/Money Order *.php'. That will only search *.php files in the

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Joseph
On 06/06/15 23:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/06/2015 18:45, Joseph wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is a better method

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread tlze
try: find . -type f -exec grep 'abcd' -l {} \;

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Joseph
On 06/06/15 20:09, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Joseph [1]syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/06/15 20:09, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Joseph [1]syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money