searching in files

[Kevin Davidson]

Not very Dell related, but you probably want something like this:

find . -name FILENAMEPATTERN -exec grep -n SEARCHPATTERN {} /dev/null \;

Which will search for strings matching SEARCHPATTERN in any file that  
matches FILENAMEPATTERN in the current directory or below. You will  
get the filename and line number of any matches. I suggest reading the  
man pages for find and grep. You may need to learn about filename  
globbing and regular expressions as well to refine this further. Good  
luck.

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On 27 Jun 2008, at 06:33, ammad shah <mammadshah at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> can i search a word from multiple files. i did the following but it  
> didn't worked.
>
>
>
> find   .  -name 06-22-2008 | grep "download"
>
>
> thanks.
>
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