Search for a string within a directory

hammertime1983 · 11-01-2007, 08:28 PM

Hello,

I am wanting to search through a whole directly for a string. i.e. search each file in the directory for the string and then list which files contain the word...

Does anyone know a way of doing this?

MS3FGX · 11-01-2007, 08:33 PM

Try:

Code:

grep word ./directory/*

gilead · 11-01-2007, 08:36 PM

There are several ways, here are a few:

Code:

grep -r 'search-string' /path/to/dictory/*
find /path/to/dictory -exec grep 'search-string' {} \;
find /path/to/dictory | xargs grep 'search-string'

The -r switch for grep is to run a recursive search, leave it off if you don't want sub-directories searched. find searches recursively by default, but you can limit that as well.