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Subj : Re: grep question
To   : comp.os.linux
From : staale
Date : Tue Aug 31 2004 02:57 am

Wiseguy wrote:
> 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
> 

If you have spaces (or other *nix unfrendly char) in file or folder 
names you better add -print0 and --null like this:

find / -type f -print0|xargs --null grep "expression"

MVH
Staale

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