Subj : Re: grep question
To   : comp.os.linux
From : noone
Date : Sat Aug 07 2004 03:17 am

lzman@mindless.com (gnosis) tried to express:
> How can I use grep to search every file on my computer for an expression?

as root

find / -type f -print | xargs grep "expression"

Warning! this will traverse NFS mounted directories too.  You might want
to add -xdev to the find and search each individual mount point instead
of a complete root tree traversal.

-wiseguy

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