[luau] Searching for text string in across source files

Erich S. sharky at websharx.com
Tue Oct 1 13:54:00 PDT 2002


Hah...never mind. Didn't realize grep could do a recursive search. Still 
not finding what I'm looking for though. Dang, must be embedded in a DB 
field somewhere...ugh

Thanks,
	Sharky

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Erich S. wrote:

> Aloha folks.
> 
> I'm trying to change some source in PostNuke, but can't seem to find the 
> file that holds the source I'm trying to change. I've searched and tried 
> the IRC channels but haven't found an answer yet.
> 
> However, I do know some of the unique text I'd like to change in the 
> source file (basically changing the create an account message that comes 
> up in the user login block). I just can't seem to navigate my way to it 
> from the shell and I've gotten lost trying to walk the PHP source tree 
> (mostly because I'm still a newb at PHP and the comments in Postnuke 
> sometimes aren't as helpful as my addled brain needs)
> 
> I know there must be a way to search multiple files (or even a directory
> recursively) for a string of text. I just have not done it before from the
> shell. Could someone enlighten me with appropriate methods for doing this?
> 
> Grepping all the files individually sounds tedious at best :)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 	Sharky
> 
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