searching text within a folder in linux

muby · 10-07-2007, 10:45 PM

i just wonder if this is possible (searching text within a folder in linux), i doing programming i need to know in which file certain funtions are, any one?

thank you
Muby

bigrigdriver · 10-07-2007, 10:52 PM

find /path/to/folder -type f | grep 'text string'

This should recursively search through the files in folder for the given text string.

speck · 10-08-2007, 12:13 AM

If you just need to search only a single directory (and no subdirectories):

Code:

grep "string to search" *

If you need to search multiple directories and/or subdirectories:

Code:

find /dir/to/search_1 /dir/to/search_2 -type f -print | xargs  grep "string to search"

chrism01 · 10-08-2007, 01:13 AM

or use grep -r

muby · 10-08-2007, 07:45 AM

bigrigdriver, speck & chrism01 thank you very much