Recursive grep
This tip is for grepping a pattern even in the sub-directories of a particular directory in addition to the files in the current directory.
Since grep -R <> <> is not available on all flavors, this can be really helpful.
The command is as follows :
find
The arguments are self-explanatory.
The output of find will be xarg‘ed to the input of grep
and these will be searched for search string.
Here’s additional examples:
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
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December 17, 2008 at 10:07 pm, Lee said:
This is a fantastic tip, thank you!