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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to search for a string in all the files irrespective of directory.? Post 302967959 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 1st of March 2016 02:45:08 PM
Old 03-01-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
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
That should be find . -type f -exec grep -l "test_text" {} + (with the dot and without the \)
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