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smeeb
smeeb

Reputation: 29477

Shell-fu to list all files in a directory that contain instance of a word or phrase

Linux here. I'm trying to run some kind of shell-fu command against an arbitrary directory on my file system, and have it spit out all the files (searching recursively) inside that directory that contain at least one instance of a particular (quoted) phrase. So something like this:

someMagicCommand ~/some/path/to/a/dir -phrase "How now brown cow"
Listing:
/home/myUser/path/to/a/dir/TheArsonist.txt
/home/myUser/path/to/a/dir/HasOddly.csv
/home/myUser/path/to/a/dir/subdir/yetanothersubdir/ShapedFeet.xml

Where those 3 files (TheArsonist.txt, HasOddly.csv, and ShapedFeed.xml) all contain at least one instance of `"How now brown cow" inside of them. Don't care about anything other than the file names and their paths (which can be absolute or relative to the target directory, no preferences). But I specifically just want paths + names (not content dumps).

I've tried all manners of grep and find variations but not even sure where to start here. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 45

Answers (1)

ffledgling
ffledgling

Reputation: 12140

You can do this with a simple grep command

grep -rl "how now brown cow" /path/to/dir

Upvotes: 1

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