Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

How to search for a string in all the files irrespective of directory.

If I use

Code:

grep -i 'hello' *.*

It will search for the string hello in the files of current directory.

But I want to check for the string hello in the files of all the directories.

Thanks

Hello ROCK_PLSQL,

Please use code tags while using Inputs/codes/commands into your posts as per forum rules.
You could go through the rules of forum into as follows link too.
https://www.unix.com/misc.php?do=cfrules

Now coming onto your requirement, could you please try following and let me know if this helps you.

Code:

find -type f -exec grep -l "test_text" {} \+

Please try above and let us know how it goes, if you have more conditions and requirements please mention all in post too.

NOTE: Above will provide you all the files details(only names of files) which have string test_text in them.

Thanks,
R. Singh

Does your grep offer the -r option?

Hi,

I have tried this

Code:

 find -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} \+

got the error

Code:

find: illegal option -- t
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list

Code:

grep -r

is not supporting.

Thanks

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Hi ALL,

Please help me.

Thanks

That should be find . -type f -exec grep -l "test_text" {} + (with the dot and without the \)