On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Nate Carlson wrote: > > A particular user of mine can not remember where she put an important > > file. How do I use grep to search her directory for just file names? > > Thanks a lot to the folks that helped me in getting vmware running. > > find . -type f | grep -i <file> > > or, if you need to grep contents of files: > > find . -type f -exec grep --with-file -i <search_string> er, i suck (Hit send too quick): find . -type f -exec grep --with-file -i <search_string> {} \; -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500