[NBLUG/talk] Finding files containing a string

[Todd Cary]

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Do you want to find the string "interbase.so" inside of a file?
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Yes! When I use the grep in my previous message, I only get the file 
name (expected); I want to have the fully qualaified file name i.e. the 
directory plus file name.

Todd

Kyle Rankin wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:59:27AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I want to find all files containing the string "interbase.so".  If I do
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>>ls -Rl * | grep "interbase.so"
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>>I do not get the directory.  What is the best way to do this?
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>>Todd
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>Hmm, I think I misunderstood your question. Do you want to find the string
>"interbase.so" inside of a file? or is "interbase.so" part of the file or
>directory name? If you were trying the latter my previous advice applies,
>otherwise just use the recursive flag to grep:
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>  grep -R "interbase.so" *
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