Re: Searching word(s) in multiple file and directories

non-Perl unix approach:

find . -exec fgrep variable_name {} /dev/null ;
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Of course, you can substitute any directory for '.'; you need to surround fgrep's argument with single-quotes if it has shell-interpretable characters like '$'; you can use grep instead of fgrep to search by regexp instead of for plaintext.

I have this in my .bashrc:

rfind() {
  find . -exec fgrep $1 {} /dev/null \;
}
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Re: Re: Searching word(s) in multiple file and directories by simonm (Vicar) on Dec 03, 2003 at 21:12 UTC
FWIW, some flavors of grep handle recursion on their own with the -r flag; check your local manpage for confirmation or just try it: `fgrep -r variable_name .` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Searching word(s) in multiple file and directories by TASdvlper (Monk) on Dec 03, 2003 at 23:44 UTC
Just what I was looking for. thanks.	[reply]
Re: Re: Searching word(s) in multiple file and directories by waswas-fng (Curate) on Dec 03, 2003 at 23:19 UTC
Or to just print the filenames with the matching text: `find /path -type f -exec grep -l "StringToMatch" "{}" \;` [download] from there you can pipe on and actually do something with the output. Note that the -l is a lowercase L. -Waswas	[reply] [d/l]