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Old 11-12-2009
Using grep to search within files

Hi,

At my company, we have custom web sites that we create for different clients. The folder structure is something like:
<project name>/html/web/custom/
The custom folder contains a file called "category.html"

Every project has the same folder structure, and same file names but, the data within the file will vary from project to project.

I've found that one project's "category.html" contained an incorrect string, so now I have to make sure that other project's don't have the same problem.

Instead of going into each file, I'm trying to grep the search, and this is what I'm running the following command from the folder containing the project folders: grep -r string category.html

This command doesn't seem to do anything - or else it's taking a very long time. Am I using the right command?
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Old 11-12-2009
Go to the directory that contains the project directories. This command should do it:
Code:
grep 'string' */html/web/custom/category.html

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Old 11-12-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Go to the directory that contains the project directories. This command should do it:
Code:
grep 'string' */html/web/custom/category.html

Worked! Thanks so much!
 
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