Andy's linux notes: Searching in files

Monday, 20 December 2010

Searching in files

Search for files containing the string "lookfor"


find . -type f -exec grep -i "lookfor" {} \; -print

2 comments:

andy21 February 2011 at 09:42
or:
grep -r "lookfor"
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andy15 May 2014 at 10:34
[for git repo] git grep "lookfor"
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