Re: How to find files by text/subdirectories
Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> On 07 Feb 1999q, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> > What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
> > documents?
find director_and_subs_you_are_interested_in -exec grep "string you
seek" {} \; -print
If you're only interested in html files, add -name "*html" before -exec.
> > 4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do. Is there
> > a way to pipe 'find'? Or do I need to use gawk?
> > When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search multiple
> > directories. I find never used
> > gawk before so I probably didn't know what I was doing. I would prefer
> > to 'find' somehow but I am
> > not sure how to search for text using it. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Lance
>
> Install glimpse. I don't know if there is a deb file of of this so you may
> need to put it in /usr/local/. It makes an index of all the files on your
> hard disk (or any subset of them you choose); then you can search for
> whatever text strings you choose. Brilliant program.
>
> Anthony
>
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