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Hi Jonathan,
I've never used QSHELL before and have come across the "find" and "grep"
commands through Google and the archives, but can't seem to get anything
to work.
Typically, you'd just do this (from QShell):
grep -F -R -i "string to find" /usr/local/src
Replace "/usr/local/src" for the directory you want to start searching in.
-R tells it to search all files & subdirectories of the directory given.
-i means "case-insensitive". Leave this off if you want it to match
upper/lowercase exactly.
-F tells it to search for a flat string (as opposed to a regular
expression). Depending on what you're seaching for, this flag
may not matter. Leave it off if you want to search for
regular expressions (which are a really fancy way of providing
"wildcards", if you're not familiar with what an reg exp is.)
The manual page for grep can be found here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzahz/grep.htm
You probably don't want 'find', since find only searches file names, not
their contents. But, in some cases you need something more complex,
such as running grep on all files that are owned by the BOB user profile
-- in that case, you can combine 'find' with 'grep' to achieve your
goal...
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