Help with Grep command

bbbngowc · #1 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Hi,

I'm trying to search across a bunch of files for certain pattern. I want the output to only be a list of files that contain the pattern.

I do:

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.ACT" -exec grep pattern {} \;

And it comes with the the filename and the line in the file that contains the pattern, etc etc. How can I get this to show me only the files?

cero · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Hi,
The manpage points you to the -l and -r flag:

Code:

grep -lr pattern *.ACT

lists only filenames and does the directory recursion, so find is not needed.

bbbngowc · #3 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

Thanks. That's much simpler that what I used.

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.ACT" -print | xargs grep -il pattern

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