On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:25 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > I need some help with grep. In fact I'm not really sure grep is what I > should be using. I would list to find the number of files containing a > string. Not the number of times the string appears in a single file. > > Say I'm searching the /var/spool/mail dir and want to see how many times > the string 'enlargement' occurs in that directory. What do I need to do?
grep -l enlargement /var/spool/mail/* | wc -l see man grep and man wc for more info. also remember read permissions and whether /var/spool/mail/* recurses into subdirs or not -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
