List files with certain search characters

[jmanj]

I'm a biginner with unix and hope somebody can help me with searching files that contains certain words or characters.

I simply want to know what command I will use to list all files in a directory that has the word "500-PROCESS-CREATE"
in it.

Thanks for any help.

 

[PHV]

man find

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[motoslide]

Create a little script.
$ cat findstring

str=$1                        
ls [A-Z]* >flist              
for i in `cat flist`          
do                            
echo $i                       
found=`grep $str $i` 
if [ "$found" != "" ]         
        then                  
        echo $i >>outfile     
        echo $found >>outfile 
fi                            
done

In my case, I'm only looking in files which start with A-Z, but you can change that to suit your needs.

To run this script, change to the directory you want to search and enter:
# findstring 500-PROCESS-CREATE
Your results will be in "outfile".

 

[jmanj]

PHV, man find does not give the answer I needed. I guess there is no way of doing this in the command line but to follow motoslide suggestion to create a script.

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[PHV]

list all files in a directory that has the word "500-PROCESS-CREATE"
(cd /path/to/dir; fgrep -l "500-PROCESS-CREATE" *)

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[jmanj]

PHV, It works!! Thanks very much..