Re: find a string in files

Gary Wessle wrote:
Hi
$ grep -FHrn string /path/
will find occurrences of the string in files recursively, but will
also find "stringing" and "strings".
how can I limit it to only "string"


grep -FHwire string /path/

thanks

np

P.S.: It's called a word boundary.

HTH,
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