Re: [edlug] grep question

[Barrie Dempster <barrie@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

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?
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> P
>  
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  `grep -ir "192.168.0.1" /* 2>/dev/null`

This will give you the filename and the line from that file. eg..
/etc/crazy_config_file:$MAD_IP="192.168.0.1"


probably be quicker if you choose directories under / that its most 
likely to be in /etc /usr etc... so you skip /dev for instance.


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