How to search for particular file?

How to search for particular file that contains a few keywords?(remember i am not talking about file names)
in windows search there is this option that can search the content ,how to do it in Linux

probably u've to use find(1) along with grep(1)....

a sample could be...

Code:


for i in `find /home/ram -name "*.txt" -print`
do
    if grep great $i 1>/dev/null 2>&1
    then
          echo $i
    fi
done


the above shell sequence searches in each file whose name matches *.txt under the directory /home/ram... and prints the filename if it contains "great" pattern in it....

remember... find(1) is recursive... i.e it searches the sub directories as well.....

or a better version of the above example could be....with grep(1)'s -l option which is used to print just the filenames instead of the lines which match the given regular expression....
i.e

Code:


$ grep -l <regExp> `find /home/ram -name "*.txt" -print`


Hope that helps.....

grep is capable enuf to srch for text inside a file .


grep <keyword> <filename> can do it.

consider this...

Search pattern - abc

filename - <whatever>

if i use $grep <search pattern> <filename>, it will list all the occurences of abc anywhere in the line of file

like the entries "xyzabc123" and "abc" alone would result in the finding of abc pattern. But what i can get from the problem is that i have to search for the abc pattern alone.

above example would search twice for this pattern however the command should have reported only one single occurence

considering ur file name to be a.txt and content to be searched is abc


this command will do it :

grep -e [[:space:]]abc[[:space:]] a.txt

-e is used to specify the pattern to be a regular expression.

this will print the whole line . u can print jus the filename using -l option.

name: beagle
for more details http://linuxappfinder.com/blog/linux_desktop_search

please continue the discussion...

grep -l 'pattern' *
this will give the names of all the filenames containing the pattern

Plzz add few more questions ..and continue the topic!!