How to find text in a set of files?

concoran · 06-01-2003, 07:08 PM

I want to know where HOSTNAME value is assigned.
So, I will need to find out the exact file (with line number) where the value is set. I know we can use grep to do that, but dunno how.
Can someone help?
Thanks,

Crashed_Again · 06-01-2003, 07:28 PM

If you want to check the /etc directory files and all of the subdirectories files as well for the string hostname you would do:

grep -R HOSTNAME /etc/*

I don't know what the switch is for identifying the line it is on though.

Proud · 06-01-2003, 07:36 PM

Either in /etc/hostname, or /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit line 30