[SOLVED] Search Command

[zymjh]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post here.

I need a little help, I have a website running php5, and need to add a few categories into a couple of drop down boxes. The only problem is that I can not find where the options for the drop boxes are kept. I need a command that will allow me to search all files in a particular folder for a variable. I have tried commands such as

grep -R -B3 -A4 "variable" /nas2/*

find -name '*.*' -print0 | xargs -0 grep '$variable'

nas2 is the directory

I am new to this department and not sure what to try next.

Thanks in advance.

[Cabhan]

grep is the command to use here. Are you new to Linux entirely? /nas2/ would be a directory called "nas2" pretty high up in the tree: it's unlikely that the directory is actually located here.

If that is the correct directory, what error are you getting? The command to search for a variable recursively in a directory is grep -R "variable" dir/, so it looks like that's working.

[zymjh]

I am new to working with php and html, nas2 is the main directory that I need to find it in for then I can FTP it to main server once I have made the nessecary changes.

I am not getting an error, I just can't seem to find what I am looking for. I tried grep -R "variable" dir/, but it did not give me an answer.

[zymjh]

Never mind,

I found what I was looking for in my database files.

Thanks for your help Cabhan.