Search harddisk for files

[jorx]

Hi, I want to find a file on the harddisk that contains a certain text. I tried to use

grep -R text /

but after about 24 hours the program has not yet exited and no files were found even if I placed a file myself to test the program.

So how should I do it?

Regards
/J Lindroos

[LNXchd]

Give this a whirl and see how it works for you...
#find / -type f -iname [your text files] -print
...the above will search your / directory for any files containing [whatever you decide..without the brackets, of course.] and prints the complete path to stdout.

man find (http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/find1.html)

Chad

[jorx]

I'll try it, thanks