command to search

ekdya · 11-12-2005, 05:07 AM

Hello

I looked every where includeing the doc related to egrep, I am trying to search all the files in all the sub-directories of a given directory for a given string, could some one please help
I don't think the distro makes a different but it is debian testing 2.6.13 just in case.

thanks

druuna · 11-12-2005, 05:21 AM

Hi,

Here's one way of doing this:

find . -type f -exec egrep <searchstring> {} \;

Find will come up with all files (-type f) and give these to egrep. Egrep will search the given file for the <searchstring> you gave.

Hope this helps.

imitheos · 11-12-2005, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ekdya
Hello

I looked every where includeing the doc related to egrep, I am trying to search all the files in all the sub-directories of a given directory for a given string, could some one please help
I don't think the distro makes a different but it is debian testing 2.6.13 just in case.

thanks

Code:

egrep -r "search_string" *

or with find like druuna mentioned

prabuayyappan · 11-12-2005, 09:46 AM

1)find . -exec grep -q "searchstring" '{}' \; -print

If you want to just find each file then pass it on for processing use the -q grep option.

2)find . -exec grep "www.athabasca" '{}' \; -print

All files that contain the string will have their path printed to standard output.