Search files containing text

[tuxaholic]

I want to search files in linux containing special text, for example:
I want to find any files in /etc containing text "10.0.0.3".
I just using command line (not the GUI interface),
how to solve this ?

thanks

[sdousley]

find /etc -type f -iname '*' -exec grep -Hni "10.0.0.3" {} \;

should do the trick.

You could do like i did and put this in a bash script. Create a new file and in it put:

#!/bin/bash
find "$1" -type f -iname '*' -exec grep -Hni "$2" {} \;

Save it, make it executable, then put it in /bin or somewhere in $PATH. Then when you run it use something like:

findin /etc 10.0.0.3

assuming you called it "findin" and it's in your $PATH somewhere, and you want to find instances of that IP in /etc.

Also being that it uses find, it is also recursive. So it will search all subdirectories in /etc. Also with the grep -Hni it will return the filename AND ilne number it found the text.

The format of the output is:

<filename>:<line number within file>:<text>

<text> is the whole text from that line of that file.

HTH

[Zelmo]

You can also do it just using grep.

grep "10.0.0.3" /etc/*

will only check the files in /etc/itself;

grep -R "10.0.0.3" /etc/*

will check the files in /etc and all directories under /etc.

[tuxaholic]

Great, thanks a lot.