Re: Search for string in files

[Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net>]

On Saturday 25 August 2007 14:16, Johannes Tax wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of
> files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source
> tree, I could do
>
> cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function'
>
> but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much
> because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's a
> tool that makes it possible to find a string in a bunch of files and
> also to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification to
> the command given above?

grep -l 'a_certain_function' $(find . -name '*.c')

--Mike Bird