> Hello
> I would like to search for a "specific text"
> on my machine.
> I would like to know all the FILENAMES and PATHS
> which contains a SPECIFIC TEXT.
>
> I know i have to playwith FIND or GREP
> but if any one of you have any idea please let me
> know
As usual with Unix, there are several ways to do this. My favourite is:
find / -type f -print | xargs grep "specific text"
because it's *much* faster than the most commonly used alternative:
find / -type f -exec grep "specific text" /dev/null {} \;
Tony
