Re: use find to search contents of files in /etc

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 elemint@hotpop.com wrote:

> I want to search all files in /etc that have the word hostname in them.
> I do not want to search the actual file name for hostname but instead I
> want to search the content of the files for the word hostname.

find /etc -exec grep hostname "{}" \;

Or:

find /etc -type f | xargs grep hostname

Or don't use find:

grep -r hostname /etc

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/

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