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Reputation: 39

command to search string in linux environment

i have unix directory path. this directory contains 5 sub-folders. under each subfolder, i have 10 files (similar). this sub folder means each site or location files.

I want to search a particular number present in each five subfolder.

i am currently using grep command which is useful to find string in a sub folder, but not in all sub folders

grep -l search string *. this is performing for a sub folder. i want to do search for all five subfolders using one single command.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1069

Answers (2)

josifoski
josifoski

Reputation: 1726

grep -r

is what you want

man grep
/--recursive 

-r, --recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively, following
symbolic links only if they are on  the  command  line.
Note that if no file operand is given, grep searches the working directory.
This is equivalent to the -d recurse option.

Upvotes: 1

Ed Morton
Ed Morton

Reputation: 204488

using one single command - why? UNIX is built on the philosophy of using combinations of the right commands to achieve the best results, why would you want to do something different?

In this case, the UNIX tool to find files is named find and the UNIX tool to Globally search for a Regular Expression within a file and Print the result is grep so the right approach for your problem is a combination of find and grep, e.g.:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l regexp

Upvotes: 1

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