Re: Search certain string in a directory
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:54:44PM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
> >I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within
> >it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the
> >certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please?
> find ~/tmp/ -type f -exec grep -l mystring {} \;
>
> this will recursivly look for files in ~/tmp/ and print out files that
> have mystring in them.
Of course grep has a -R flag for recursive operation ...
grep -R "some regexp" .
or.
rgrep "some string" .
Steve
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