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stefcud
stefcud

Reputation: 2315

grep only text files

find . -type f | xargs file | grep text | cut -d':' -f1 | xargs grep -l "TEXTSEARCH" {}

it's a good solution? for find TEXTSEARCH recursively in only textual files

Upvotes: 82

Views: 67063

Answers (3)

Mark B
Mark B

Reputation: 546

If you know what the file extension is that you want to search, then a very simple way to search all *.txt files from the current dir, recursively through all subdirs, case insensitive:

grep -ri --include=*.txt "sometext" *

Upvotes: 9

kev
kev

Reputation: 161604

You can use the -r(recursive) and -I(ignore binary) options in grep:

$ grep -rI "TEXTSEARCH" .
  • -I Process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match option.
  • -r Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is equivalent to the -d recurse option.

Upvotes: 275

user unknown
user unknown

Reputation: 36229

Another, less elegant solution than kevs, is, to chain -exec commands in find together, without xargs and cut:

find . -type f -exec bash -c "file -bi {} | grep -q text" \; -exec grep TEXTSEARCH {} ";"

Upvotes: 7

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