[Eug-lug] cat directory |grep results??

Allen Brown abrown at peak.org
Sat Jul 8 13:49:13 PDT 2006


Mr O wrote:
> What I've got going on is a borked Firefox because of libbeagle.
> So, how can I fish for any lines containing 'beagle' in my
> ".mozilla" directory? I prefer not to nuke my profile if I don't
> have to.
> 
> TIA,
> Mr O.

If the number isn't too large
   grep beagle $(find . -type f) | less

For very large numbers of files
   find . -type f -exec grep beagle {} /dev/null \; | less
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