Comments on: Recursive grep

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:07:44 +0000

This is a fantastic tip, thank you!

By:

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:41:42 +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 `; do grep $i; done

By:

Sun, 27 May 2007 10:51:15 +0000

find|xargs grep ’search text’

is easier to type :-)

xargs rocks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:11:13 +0000

It’s so great. Thanks.

By:

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 07:28:50 +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

By: seacoder

seacoder — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:00:39 +0000

find . -name “*” -exec grep {} /dev/null ;

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:30:36 +0000

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

By: htihan

htihan — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:25:13 +0000

Thank you so much,

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

Best, peace…
Hal