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Re: Recursive grep

Qwertyboy — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:36:28 -0000

Worthless.

Re: Recursive grep

reggie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:30 -0000

We could probably go on and on...this works well on most...

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs grep -F 'example'
#Will Search all regular files for 'example' in current dir

find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'example'
#Will Search all regular files for 'example' in current dir and below

Re: Recursive grep

Lee — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:07:44 -0000

This is a fantastic tip, thank you!

Re: Recursive grep

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:41:42 -0000

For those of you with a really stripped down config with no xargs and a find that doesn't support -exec, the old fashioned way:

for i in `find <path>`; do grep <pattern> $i; done

Re: Recursive grep

Anonymous — Sun, 27 May 2007 06:51:15 -0000

find|xargs grep 'search text'

is easier to type :-)

xargs rocks.

Re: Recursive grep

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:11:13 -0000

It's so great. Thanks.

Re: Recursive grep

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:28:50 -0000

find /users/ -type f -name "*" -exec grep -ls sqlload {} ;
It gives output like this:
/users/hattb/shirley_test_file

The -type f switch tells it to only look in text files.
If you want to redirect the output to a file:
find /users/hattb -type f -name "*" -exec grep -ls sqlload {} ; >out.txt

Hope this helps,
Shirley

Re: Recursive grep

seacoder — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:00:39 -0000

find . -name "*" -exec grep <pattern> {} /dev/null ;

Re: Recursive grep

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:30:36 -0000

that's great and all, but you dont get filenames

Re: Recursive grep

htihan — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 04:25:13 -0000

Thank you so much,

It is one of those days.. I spent almost an hour for this.....

Best, peace...
Hal