find / -name "rules.ima" | grep "@aol.com" | more should work, if I'm understanding your question properly. If all of your users are in /home (and these are all user files), you could try
find /home -name "rules.ima" | grep "@aol.com" | more instead, which would be a) faster b) fewer error messages (i.e., none if run as root) HTH Bill Ward > -----Original Message----- > From: ListServ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:29 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: search files for key words > > How can I search thru multiple subdirectories and individual > files looking > for key words? > Currently I have about 600 subdirectories each one having its > own rules.ima > file. > > In particular I am looking for "@aol.com" references in all > rules.ima files. > > > Roger _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
