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I've often seen people using the find command on a directory to get all the files, then using these with grep to find files containing a particular word. This can however, be done better just using grep:
greps for occurances of 'search_for' in the specified directory and below, or the current directory if none specified.
Options:
-i case insensitive
-n shows line number
-H shows file name
-R recursive
grep --color=auto -inHR "search_for" /in/dir
greps for occurances of 'search_for' in the specified directory and below, or the current directory if none specified.
Options:
-i case insensitive
-n shows line number
-H shows file name
-R recursive
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grep word /dir/*
Posted 2009-05-01 09:00:05
SteveGgrep word /dir/*
Doesn't do remotely the same thing as the command in this tip. The command in the tip looks for files in a directory which contain a word, whereas "grep word /dir/*" searches for files where the FILENAME contains the word.
Doesn't do remotely the same thing as the command in this tip. The command in the tip looks for files in a directory which contain a word, whereas "grep word /dir/*" searches for files where the FILENAME contains the word.
Posted 2009-05-06 10:14:52