Re: using find with grep

[Ashish Ariga <akariga@axes-mach01.usa.alcatel.com>]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:52:46PM -0500, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> I have an expression that searches within files
> of a particular type and displays the output.
> But I would ALSO like it to display the directory
> for each find occurence.
> The command below works, but won't give me
> the directory.
> 
> find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \;
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated,
> 
> -Rick
> 

Try
find /home -name "*.txt" -exec grep --with-filename searchstring {} \;

If that doesn't do it then this surely will
find /home -name "*.txt" -exec grep searchstring {} /dev/null \;

Ashish.

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