On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:06:52AM -0400, Mark D Pace wrote: > Does some have a script they could share that would do the following > Search through a list of files ie. *.conf > Look for a particular string ie. 'virtual' > If the string is found I would like to display the line and filename that > contained that line. > > I can do part of that by doing cat *.conf |grep string but that only > displays the line, not the file in which it was found. > Can someone help me out with the file name part?
GNU grep has an -r option to search recursively. E.g. grep -r foobar /etc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
