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[Chen Yong [PG]]

Dear Sir,

I am using the "grep" utility to find one file within the whole filesystem, 
which include a particular pattern. This is especially useful, when I can only 
one word in a file, but can not exactly remember the file name. I have to 
search 
the file within the whole filesystem. I tried by using this, but I failed, 

        cd /
        grep -r "pattern" *
        
I run the command in the linux enviroment, I always was prompted that 'Invalid 
argument' when it proceed to the '/dev/log' directory.

Please help me, thank you very much


chen yong