Re: text search in a file

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Re^2: text search in a file by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 10, 2005 at 22:18 UTC
other way around (`man grep` for the switch details): `grep [options] PATTERN [FILE...]` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: text search in a file by kwaping (Priest) on Aug 10, 2005 at 22:22 UTC
Unfortunately, not all greps have a recursive flag, such as /usr/bin/grep on Solaris. :( I'm forced to create my own recursive grep like this: `grep -li search_term * / //* /// (etc.)` [download] But I agree that a recursive grep is the best solution for the OP.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: text search in a file by Tanktalus (Canon) on Aug 11, 2005 at 01:55 UTC
Nah - much easier to do something like: grep -li search_term `find . -type f` [download] Assuming there aren't so many files that you exhaust the command shell line length. Or you can check out xargs, or even -exec option on find. TMTOWTDI - even in shell. :-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: text search in a file [OT] by graff (Chancellor) on Aug 11, 2005 at 11:35 UTC
Alas, in addition to having no recursive option in /usr/bin/grep, Solaris also offers the inability to use /usr/bin/find and /usr/bin/xargs like this: `find . -print0 -type f \| xargs -0 grep -li search_term` [download] at least, not in SunOS 5.8 -- I don't know if this has been fixed in more recent releases, but if it hasn't... well, I just don't understand what's wrong with those people at Sun. Solaris users generally benefit from having the GNU tools installed in /usr/local/bin, and putting that in front of /usr/bin in their shell PATH.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: text search in a file by davis (Vicar) on Aug 11, 2005 at 09:28 UTC
While we're on shell stuff, I've got to point out that that doesn't work if there's a lot of files below your current working directory. It'll fail with "argument list too long". Much better is: `$ find . -type f -exec grep -qi search_term {} \; -print` [download] cheers davis Kids, you tried your hardest, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: text search in a file by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 11, 2005 at 09:34 UTC
Re^5: text search in a file by kwaping (Priest) on Aug 11, 2005 at 15:41 UTC
Re^3: text search in a file by Fletch (Bishop) on Aug 11, 2005 at 02:52 UTC
Or if you use the most spiffy `zsh` you can do this: `grep -li search */(.)` [download] Which will recursively search only files. But again that may bump into a number of arguments limitation (in which case you'd use `print -N */(.) \| xargs grep -li search` or the like). -- We're looking for people in ATL	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: text search in a file by goosefairy (Novice) on Aug 10, 2005 at 22:07 UTC
Sheesh. cough Boy is my face red. I was so caught up in using perl I completely forgot about grep. That does exactly what I need. Thanks muchly.	[reply]