searching directories for files with grep?

[scoobydope]

must be possible. is there a flag that i can use in combination.... suppose i want to find a file with the string 'swat' in the name of the file....?

or do you just use a find...or a locate?

[jemfinch]

"find -regex" if you want to find files whose names match a regexp.

Jeremy

[klamath]

Just do a 'ls|grep foo'.

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[scoobydope]

ok, what about finding a string in a file... out of a list of files....

say i have the line 'rmdir -f /etc'
in some script somewhere in one of 30 scripts in the directory /dumbscript..

is there a way to locate that line by somehow scanning all the files from a single grep?

I think that is more what i am trying to ask.

[klamath]

grep -d skip 'hello world' /etc/*

If you need to recurse directories under /etc, something like:

find /etc -type f -exec 'grep "hello world" {}' ';'

or just

grep -r 'hello world' /etc/*

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