Taking Grep to a Lower Level

[David Mandala]

in the / directory grep -r ComputerName * will walk the directories BUT
you really don't want to do this as grep will walk the binary files too.

Since you want to change the name in a Red Hat 7.2 system just use the
command in /etc not in / The files you want are in /etc and
/etc/sysconfig

Cheers,

Davidm
 
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 15:26, George Gambill wrote:
> Need to change the "computer name" without reloading RH 7.2.
> 
> Looking at the man pages for Grep, it (grep) seems to only look in the
> current directory.
> 
> How can I grep 'ComputerName' through all subdirectories?
> 
> Thnx
> 
> 
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