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Re: Finding file with specific Text string
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:41, Doug Wyman wrote:
> Finding file with specific Text string
>
> I am using Red Hat 7.3 and have not figured out the command line that
> will give me the output that I'm looking for. I would like to get
> the document names where a specific text string exist.
>
> The files are Microsoft Word documents on a CD. They are daily and
> shift log files. I need to find which documents has the specific
> text string “LSTMIS1” in it. The documents are arranged in
> directorys by year, then by month under that. Each shift makes a file
> everyday.
find <dir> -type f -print | xargs fgrep -l '“LSTMIS1”'
That should do it. If, by some weird chance, there are non-Word files
in that directory that match, tack "| fgrep .doc" to the end of that
command line.
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Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>
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