How to find a particular string!! from a Directory
 

Hi all,

I want to search a particular string in a directory , that directory contains N number of subdirectories, and files and my requirement is inside the directory and subdirectory what are the files contains particular string like "TBone" i want to display that files.
Is it possible to do that.. Dont think this as a homework, this simple command helps me in lot of ways. so please guide me to solve this thread.

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Hi there,

As I can understand you are trying to look for a filename/directory name that contains a particular string say ABC. I think locate command will work for you.

or

You can use find command to do your job

I hope this helps.

Is the string in the name of the file or actually inside the file?

As previous post answers part 1 then the answer to part 2 would be to use grep:

Hi grail,


My requirement is inside the file,

for example:

a directory name
in that dir contains 3 files and 2 sub directories llike

in that file contains this string.

and file contains this string.

and sub dir contains one file that file contains this string
if i searched the keyword means I want the output like this.

How is it possible?? I hope you understand my requirement, sorry my english is not good compare to you guys.

The grep i provided should be able to help:

Hi grail,

command you have given provide only one level search , It doesn't list all the files there. I've tried with the scenario described by anish
it gives me following result

directory structure


[root@master tmp]# ls -R
.:
grail

./grail:
anish.txt boys.txt father jesus linux.txt

./grail/father:

./grail/jesus:
questions.txt


and command provided by you shows this result

[root@master tmp]# grep -i -l "love" grail/*
grail/anish.txt
[root@master tmp]# cat grail/anish.txt
God Save Me,i love my mom

I should list all the files containing the word love...

thanx
samtoddler

Maybe if you used -r instead of -i, which was my suggestion, you will get the correct result.

hi grail,


thanx lil typo...

samtoddler

Hi all,

Thanks for all replies, you guys done a great help for me.. Thank you so much :-)