Listing string and file name

[Jza]

I have a folder with lots of email files, I want to search for a specific string. I use less and I get the strings I wanted but I dunno which file is comming from. How can I manipulate the output so that the filename is display after the string. Something like this.

> less *

[file1]John has something good in the house..

[file8]standing the good work where I should

 

Thanks.

 

 

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[Steve Scrimpshire]

grep -H good * | less

[Jza]

grep -H good * | less

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Wow great stuff, thanks man, now I got a new challenge

Imagine that I want to do this but from a higher level of folders. Actually I am triying to do this on the gaim logs. I had the conversation on ICQ son in Gaim I get just the ID number as the folder name which leaves me pretty lost.

 

So I want to do the grepping from a list of folders and I want the path to be displayed instead of just the filename.

 

Example:

> ls
4323422  2343234  23454
3463334  3454345  375444
>> grep -H good * | less .....
[4323422/23-05-2004.log]  the name of the good stuff....
[3454345/02-12-2004.log]  only good man die...

[ramfree17]

maybe something to this effect:

 

$ find . -exec grep good {} \; -print

 

ciao!

[Steve Scrimpshire]

or

 

grep -R -H good * | less

 

Personally, I like 'more'

 

grep -R -H good * | more