What is the best tool to find all files with a string such as "PS1=" ?
I solved this one by letting the Find Files icon in KDE sort through the whole hard drive.
If I knew the likely candidates I could use cat | grep "PS1=" or maybe awk (just discovered this today). In DOS I would use For...in...do...find... but that does rely on knowing the likely candidates (usually by the three letter extensions).
Any suggestions?
Naps

What's wrong with just using grep?

something like:
-r : recursive
-I : ignore binary files
-D skip : skip device drivers

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Kyle

Yea or so you can remeber that make a bash script so that it will run with them commands and you got your own home made search engine

Thanks for the speedy replies, Mithrascruor and Exvor. More success using the / instead of the * I had used before. I don't know what's wrong but it goes through the windows directories twice, then after a couple of grep /proc entries, which return Invalid Argument, it stops. (I copied the windows partitions over to this box for the data, though I don't run it on this box). I don't know if this is peculiar to my distro Suse 9.1; I tried it on my laptop, which has a Debian based distro (Libranet 2.8.1) which would not run with the -D switch. It did find my .bashrc file in my home directory (I think SuSE makes it more difficult by using etc/profile referring to /etc/profile.local or some complex set-up) but then it stops after two "no such file or directory" entries in a /~/.kde directory.
Perhaps it is running out of memory (500Mb on the desktop and 384 on the laptop)? I would have thought it would crash more readily with a GUI, but maybe SuSE has built in a work-around for this?
Naps

grep was already mentioned, but if you're looking for the file with the 'PS1=' line in it (which I was not sure if you are or not), try /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile -- one or the other should contain the PS1= line.

I guess knowing where to look is the answer.

Naps