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Amit Anand
Amit Anand

Reputation: 85

Search files containing string recursively in solaris

Looking for solaris command for getting list of all files containing search pattern (recursively). I know how to do it for linux but same command is not working in solaris:

bash-3.2# uname -a
SunOS D1NCIC-CL01 5.10 Generic_148888-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000

bash-3.2# find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "contentInFile"
xargs: illegal option -- 0
xargs: Usage: xargs: [-t] [-p] [-e[eofstr]] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr] [-i[replstr]] [-L #] [-l[#]] [-n # [-x]] [-s size] [cmd [args ...]]
find: bad option -print0
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list

Upvotes: 1

Views: 26087

Answers (2)

jlliagre
jlliagre

Reputation: 30823

As is so often the case when combined with find, xargs is useless here. You can run this portable command on both Solaris and Linux to get what you want:

find . -type f -exec grep -l "contentInFile" {} +

Upvotes: 7

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 31087

If your filenames don't contain any whitespace, simply use -print and omit the -0 from xargs.

If they do, upgrade to Solaris 11, and use /usr/gnu/bin/find and /usr/gnu/bin/xargs (GNU Tools out of the box in Solaris 11).

Alternatively, if you're stuck on Solaris 10, install the GNU Find Utilities (How do I grep recursively?), or one of the alternative search tools suggested in How do I grep recursively? (Ag, ack).

Upvotes: 1

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