Thought this was helpful...

nipper

For those of you (on unix) that want a list of files that contain a certain string in a large directory. I use it to search for perl lcoations in this example:

find /iw-home -name "*.*pl" -print | xargs grep -l "#!/iw-home" | more


gives a list like this :

/iw-home/private/bin/iwanalyze.ipl
/iw-home/private/bin/iwanalyzetool.ipl
/iw-home/tmp/test.pl
/iw-home/examples/Templating/workflow/author_submit_dcr-0.ipl
/iw-home/examples/Templating/workflow/author_submit_dcr-3.ipl
/iw-home/OpenDeployNG/solutions/perl/iwodstart.ipl
/iw-home/datadeploy/bin/iwdd.ipl


HTH
Andy

13adam13

You could also say:
find /iw-home -name "*pl" -exec grep -l "#!/iw-home" {} \; | more

or

for filename in `find /iw-home -name "*.pl"`;
do
grep -l "#!iw-home" $filename
done