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Cyclone
Asked: 2012-01-12 09:40:56 +0800 CST

How to find a file that contains the specified string in FreeBSD?

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I'm searching for the way to find a file that contains specified string text.

It should be fast as possible but its not that important.

I was reading the manual, and I've build something like that: grep my_string * -r and it works at all, but if there are many directories to search.

Are there any other ways to find a file that contains specified string in FreeBSD?

search freebsd grep unix-shell strings

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  1. Best Answer

    Did you mean:

    grep -rl my_search_pattern    my_dir1 my_dir2 my_dir3 my_another_file
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