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RE: [edlug] grep question
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-----Original Message-----
From: Barrie Dempster [mailto:barrie@xxx.xxx.xxx]
Sent: 01 March 2004 10:18
To: Peter George
Cc: edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx
Subject: Re: [edlug] grep question
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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Barrie Dempster
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