exact file search?

the foll searches current n the sub directories

find -name doll.txt

jeeva wrote:find -name doll.txt

ya.. it works. it searches sub-directories too.

is there any possibility that we can search for a file by specifying some content of that file!!!!

@ Jeeva, Is this what you are asking for ?

grep hello * will search for all files containing hello in the current directory.

In the following command, ' \ ' is called globbing character, this disables the implicit replacement of "NAME" by "*NAME*". I found it in a shell manual.

Code:

$ locate -b '\NAME'

to know more about 'globbing' character, read this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29