Searching directory for file that contains some text.

#1 (**permalink**) 04-03-2006

If I go into a directory and type in ..

more * | grep foo

I get the lines of text that contain foo in all of the files in the directory out of all of the files that are there.

How do I make it so I can find out what the names of the files are that contain that text "foo"? By doing what I typed in all I do is get a whole bunch of lines of text but not the extra file names, I know the file I need is in the directory I am in but I don't know what file it is.

Any advice? Thanks.

ashterix · #2 (**permalink**) 04-03-2006

is this what u looking for?

$ grep -l foo *

reddymails · #3 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006

hi,
If u want to serach in all sub directories recursively try this.
for i in ` find . -name "*" -print`
do
grep -l foo ${i}
done

This will list all files that have the keyword foo.

vino · #4 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006

Code:

find /dir/to/be/searched -name '*.*' -exec grep 'search string' {} /dev/null \;

jim mcnamara · #5 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006

I think he just wants to find the name of the file...

Code:

find /dir/to/be/searched -name '*.*' -exec grep -l 'search string' {} \;

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