Find text inside files and formatting

shadowdancer · 04-30-2007, 09:01 AM

Hello everybody,

I know a very useful command,that is:

Code:

$grep -lir "sometext" *

that will find "sometext" inside files in current directory and in all subdirectory. But, the output is only the files.

How to make it something like this:

Code:

/data/thisfilecontaintext.txt
sometext is inside this file
/data/anotherfile
i want to search for sometext

Basically, I want the output to print not only the file, but the whole line containing the text I search.

Any comments will be really appreciated.

Best Regards.

bathory · 04-30-2007, 09:06 AM

Remove the "l" option:

Code:

grep -ir "sometext" *

shadowdancer · 05-02-2007, 12:56 PM

Woo..

Works like a charm!

Thank you very much