On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:22:46AM +0000, Philip Christian wrote:
> 
> Is there a tool that searches inside all files in a directory
> or a partition for a particular string of text ?

$ find . -type f | xargs grep 'pattern'

Putting word markers of pattern (eg '\<word\>' ) is often useful.
(NB the ' is needed!)

	David

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