Summary: grep for a word in the whole filesystem

Thanks to all.   I received tons of email.

Here are what I found useful:

find . -type f -exec grep -li foo {} \;
find . -type f | xargs grep "foo"
find . -type f -exec printf "'%s'\n" {} \; | xargs grep foo /dev/null
find . -type f -print |xargs grep -l "foo"
find . -depth -type f -exec grep 'foo' {} \; -print
find . -type f -exec strings {} \; | grep foo

find <path_filesys> -xdev -type f -exec grep -w <word> {} /dev/null \;

-xdev will stop you crossing mount points
/dev/null will show the file that matches the string and also the string 
match

rgrep from http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/rgrep.txt

Sincerely,
Dan


>From: "Dan Lee" <koinonia98@hotmail.com>
>To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
>Subject: grep for a word in the whole filesystem
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:22:25 -0500
>
>Folks,
>
>Is there a way to grep for a pattern in the entire filesystem?  I would 
>like
>to be able to grep for example the word "foo" without the knowledge of 
>where
>it is located.  It can be in any directories or partitions.  Do I use a
>combination of find and grep?  Hopefully, it will skip any binary 
>executable
>files within the search to avoid the command being hang.
>
>TIA,
>dan
>
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