Re: [SLUG] A command question.

[Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="wbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">
>
> > Is there a command that finds a file containing a certain word?
> >
> > find and apropos don't. They work on filenames only.
>
> grep ... and you can use -r to search through files/directories recursively.

You can also use -i to do a case insensitive search.
And there are dozens of other flags to confuse you!

man grep     <=== tells all.

And to add to the mix, there are variants fgrep and egrep :)

cheers
rickw


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