Jack Bowling wrote:

>** Reply to message from fneira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 26 Jun 2002 
>16:53:58 -0300
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>>Kumar, Punit wrote:
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>>>Hi guys,
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>>>Need a quick help for all UNIX gurus out there,
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>>>How do I search some text for example "enable" in all the file through
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>>>all the file systems.
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>>>Does this command work ?
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>>>"grep enable"
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>>>Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>>Punit.
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>>If you for example want to find the string "enable" recursively, you can 
>>issue: grep -r "enable"
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>And cd to / before doing so.
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>jb
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A correction to myself: if you just issue: grep -r "enable" it will wait 
forever because it will default to standard input (ha ha ha), instead, 
you should type: grep -r "enable" *
And  of course, I absolutelly agree with Jack's comment.

HTH


Francisco




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