[Solaris 9] find and grep entire disk

noir911 · 02-13-2008, 03:55 PM

I am trying to find (text files) on the entire disk & grep for a certain pattern and send the output to a text file. Here's what I am doing -

find / -type f | xargs grep -i "search_me" > find.txt

but this is spitting output/ error on the screen (STDOUT) & not writing anything to the file -

grep: can't open File1
grep: can't open File2
grep: can't open -
grep: can't open File3
grep: can't open Release
grep: can't open Information.doc

I noticed it is giving this error for directories or filenames that have spaces in between. eg. "my file" or "my directory"

Is there anything I could do to the desired result?

Thanks for any help.

theNbomr · 02-13-2008, 04:18 PM

how about

Code:

find / -type f -exec grep -i "search_me" {} \; -print > find.txt

--- rod.

noir911 · 02-13-2008, 05:30 PM

cool works like a charm! didn't know you could use -print after {} \;

Thanks!

jlliagre · 02-13-2008, 05:51 PM

That variant should run faster:

Code:

find / -type f -exec grep -i "search_me" {} + > find.txt