Re: Search for string in files

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Johannes Tax wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Johannes
>
> --
> Johannes Tax
> jo.ey@gmx.at


you could also do something like this:

find -type f -name "*.c" | xargs grep -il a_certain_function

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