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Post 40586 by criglerj on Thursday 18th of September 2003 11:42:17 AM
09-18-2003
In addition to davidg's suggestion for find: If you will be finding a lot of files and then grepping them, you can save a good bit more time by feeding more file names to grep at once using xargs, thus:
find . -type f | xargs grep string
This has the side benefit of printing the file names with each file in which your string is found. If there are too many files to put on one command line (for the grep part), xargs will split the names according to your system's command line rules (which vary frustratingly
and provide another motivation for using xargs). If there is only one file in the last "group" that xargs feeds to grep, however, its filename won't be printed (unless your grep has an option to force the filename).
find . -type f | xargs grep string
This has the side benefit of printing the file names with each file in which your string is found. If there are too many files to put on one command line (for the grep part), xargs will split the names according to your system's command line rules (which vary frustratingly
and provide another motivation for using xargs). If there is only one file in the last "group" that xargs feeds to grep, however, its filename won't be printed (unless your grep has an option to force the filename).|
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sagasu - GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files SYNOPSIS
sagasu [string [dir]] DESCRIPTION
sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in a set of files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line. The search can recurse into subdirectories and can optionally ignore CVS directories. Two optional command-line arguments can be given: the first is the initial search string and the second is the directory whose files will be searched. If only one argument is given, it is taken as the search string. No search is actually started, but the appropriate fields are initialized. Any subsequent arguments are ignored. More documentation is available through the application's Help menu. OPTIONS
--help display a help page and exit --version display version information and exit LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. AUTHOR
Pierre Sarrazin See the Sagasu Home Page: http://sarrazip.com/dev/sagasu.html BUGS
The files to be searches are still assumed to be in Latin-1, not in UTF-8. The same goes for the command-line arguments and the terminal to which Sagasu is connected, if applicable. HISTORY
Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search." June 19th, 2010 sagasu(1)