Find All Files Containing A Given String
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Friday, September 9th, 2011Last modified:
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015Using Grep to Locate Files Which Contain a Given String
grep -r string directory
An Example
# Create some example files in /tmp cd /tmp mkdir grepexample cd grepexample/ mkdir dir touch a.txt touch b.txt echo '@TODO' > c.txt echo '@TODO' > dir/e.txt touch dir/f.txt echo '@TODO Has some text on this line' > dir/g.txt # Recurisively search for all the files containing '@TODO' grep -r @TODO /tmp/grepexample /tmp/grepexample/c.txt:@TODO /tmp/grepexample/dir/e.txt:@TODO /tmp/grepexample/dir/g.txt:@TODO Has some text on this line
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