searching a particular string in all files of a single folder
 

Hi all,

I just want to know if we can search for a particular string in all files of a particular folder in linux.

if a folder has 100files only that hundred files needs to be checked for a particular string.

if its there,kindly post your suggestions.

Thanks&regards,
Dinesh.

Hi,

Yes, you can do that in 2 easy steps. Also have a look at the grep manual page (man grep), it has a lot of useful options.

Hope this helps.

Command# grep -r "string" /root/*

Use the above command to search for a "string" in all the folders under root directory

Thank you very much both that works..

You're welcome :)

Just a reminder, that grep is CaSE sENSitiVe, so in order to make it not sensitive use option "-i".