On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Nate Carlson wrote:
> > A particular user of mine can not remember where she put an important
> > file. How do I use grep to search her directory for just file names?
> > Thanks a lot to the folks that helped me in getting vmware running.
>
> find . -type f | grep -i <file>
>
> or, if you need to grep contents of files:
>
> find . -type f -exec grep --with-file -i <search_string>
er, i suck (Hit send too quick):
find . -type f -exec grep --with-file -i <search_string> {} \;
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