Find text within files
Posted on May 1, 2008
Stuck trying to find text within files on Linux?
cd /directory_tree_you_want_to_search
find . -type f -exec grep -l "string to find" {} ; -print
Easy!
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May 4th, 2008 - 21:06
grep -lir ‘some text’ *
May 4th, 2008 - 21:09
Almost as good, but I found it freaked out with symbolic links occasionally.