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Old 03-29-2004, 06:57 AM   #1
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find a texte inside a unknow file

So, I want to search for a file, but I want to search by some text string within it.
any ideas?

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Old 03-29-2004, 10:14 AM   #2
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grep is the tool to use.

man grep for details, here's an examples:

grep -l root /etc/* => shows the names (-l) of all files in /etc that contain the word root.

Hope this helps.
 
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