how to find certain words in a file

[mike73]

I am sorry, this questions seem too easy too someone in here but I am new in Linux so Please help.

what is the find command to find certain words in a file say for example: find a word {CHECKPOINT NOT COMPLETE} in a file name {ALERT.LOG}


something grep but I don't know the rest

Please help

thanks

 

[marsd]

#!/bin/sh

get_strings() {
_rget=$1

echo -n "String to look for: "
read str

grep -n $str $_rget

}

echo -n "File to search(full path please): "
read str
while test ! -z "$str"
do
get_strings $str
done

Awk is also very good at more specialized searches and
file manipulations as is sed.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

With grep you'd just do :

grep "CHECKPOINT NOT COMPLETE" alert.log

(assuming you were in the directory where the file was) or

grep -n "CHECKPOINT NOT COMPLETE" /var/log/alert.log

where you specify the full path and ask for the lines to be numbered, etc, etc.

Rgds

Rgds