RE: Need to scan files

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the link David.  I had forgot all about the -exec
option on the FIND command.  Boy have I got a lot to learn.....

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:David.Morris@plumcreek.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Need to scan files
>
>
> Rob and Others,
>
> Midrange Guru ran an tip on find and grep a while
> back, the URL is:
>
> http://www.midrangeserver.com/guruo/guruo011102.html
>
> The following should work:
>
> find /QSYS.LIB/MYLIB.LIB/Q*.FILE -exec grep 'searchstring' {} \;
>
> Be aware that you will run many jobs doing
> this so you might read:
>
> http://www.midrangeserver.com/guruo/mgo022202-story01.html
>
> David Morris
>