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How to perform a recursive keyword search under Solaris?

How to perform a recursive keyword search under Solaris?

How to perform a recursive keyword search under Solaris?

(OP)
Hi.

I was wondering what would be the best/easiest way to recursively search for a keyword inside a file? Basically I know the contents of a file but have no idea where the file is.

I have explored with find, grep, cat, ls -lR etc but none of them recurse when looking for a pattern inside a file.

Thanks in advance.

RE: How to perform a recursive keyword search under Solaris?

I use this command on AIX but I am not sure if it works on SOLARIS.

find . | xargs grep STRING

Regards
Jono

RE: How to perform a recursive keyword search under Solaris?

(OP)
Thanx jonoheap. Worked a treat.

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