Re: How to "find in files"
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:41:15PM +0100, Roman wrote:
> Hi all and thanks a lot for the help you brought me some days ago.
>
> Now I have another question : I have googled around to find a Linux
> program, especially a Debian "APTable" package to "find in files". I
> mean searching for a certain string in the files of a path I have specified.
>
> Maybe the program "find" does the job but I'm not really good in english
> and didn't find what to do in the man pages.
>
> Can you help me please ?
'find' finds files, 'grep' searches within them.
(generalized regular expression parser).
Check regex(7) for lots of info.
Cheers,
Justin
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