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Old 03-09-2008, 07:40 PM
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i would like to search the sentence "localhost.localdomain" on all my config files, I know that 'find' can do that but I need a hint.


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Search in a current directory
Code:
grep "localhost.localdomain" *
grep "localhost.localdomain" *.conf
Match only words:
Code:
grep -w "localhost.localdomain" *
grep -w "localhost.localdomain" *.conf
Ignore case distinctions
Code:
grep -i -w "localhost.localdomain" *
 grep -i "localhost.localdomain" *.conf
Read all files under each directory, recursively
Code:
grep -i -w -r "localhost.localdomain" *
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What I have done:

Code:
find . -exec grep "localhost.localdomain" '{}' \; -print
but I like this one you just gave to me:

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Read all files under each directory, recursively
Code:
grep -i -w -r "localhost.localdomain" *

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