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How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?

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balasahu:

How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?


--- Code: ---find . | xargs grep "texthere" *
--- End code ---

Thanks.

nil:
No need for xargs - you can use the grep -r option:


--- Code: ---me@nil:~/mydir$ find .
.
./dir4
./dir2
./dir2/file-b.txt
./dir2/dir3
./dir2/dir3/file.txt
me@nil:~/mydir$ grep -r Lorem .
./dir2/file-b.txt:Lorem ipsum dolor amet
./dir2/dir3/file.txt:Lorem ipsum

--- End code ---

If you want to follow symlinks, use -R instead.

Examples at Computer Hope - https://www.computerhope.com/unix/ugrep.htm#examples

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