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Re: [edlug] grep question
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:54:33AM -0000, Peter George wrote:
> I want to search through my whole system for references to a particular IP address which may be in some obscure config file.
>
> How might I do this, outputing a list of files containing the IP address?
rgrep -l /start/dir
(rgrep is a synonym for grep -R which is recursive, and -l means show
only the filenames that match not the lines too)
`man grep` is your friend..
Steve
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