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Software => BSD, Linux, and Unix => Topic started by: balasahu on May 04, 2021, 05:20:40 AM

Title: How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?
Post by: balasahu on May 04, 2021, 05:20:40 AM

How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?

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find . | xargs grep "texthere" *
Thanks.

Title: Re: How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?
Post by: nil on May 04, 2021, 03:26:12 PM

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

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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

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

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