Re: use find to search contents of files in /etc

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Jay Jacobson wrote:

> Why not just use grep by itself? No need for 'find' at all.

grep was already mentioned in earlier email.

> If you want to
> search just the files, omitting directories:
>
> grep -d skip hostname /etc/*

I never used "-d action" before. I wonder if non-GNU greps support that.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/

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