Search for a specific word 2

[openeratech]

Hi,

After doing lot of search i am writing this post.
I am using RH linux 7.3 and want to look for a file which has a specific word.

My scenario is, I am looking for a file which has the word "Spammers", but i dont know which file and under which directory. I remember in windows you can search for files containing specific word. But i dont know the command in Linux.

Please help.

 

[KenCunningham]

Have you tried grep (as in grep 'Spammers' * to search all files. Note that this might cause problems if non-text files are searched). You could try a find:

find / -type f | xargs grep 'Spammers'

to search down through the directories under /

 

[zeland]

what you want is grep -lir spammers. grep will start searching from your current location. If you want to search your whole system, grep from /.


--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--

 

[zeland]

Oops forget the *... that should be grep -lir spammers *.


--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--

 

[openeratech]

thanks a lot for both of you in helping me.
It really helped me.

Cheers

-Yunus

 

[aisne]

another search that I've used for years would be

find . -name "*" -exec grep -l -i "spammers" {} \;

 

[sedj]

aisne :

I think zeland's suggestion is a lot cleaner, no ?

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