Comment on How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ?
sighofannoyance@lemmy.world 11 months agoSo I could use something like grep string -R * to find any occurrence of the string in any files in the folder and sub-folders.
thank you!
Comment on How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ?
sighofannoyance@lemmy.world 11 months agoSo I could use something like grep string -R * to find any occurrence of the string in any files in the folder and sub-folders.
thank you!
JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
grep -r string .The flag should go before the pattern.
-rto search recursively,.refers to the current directory.Why use
.instead of*? Because on it’s own,*will (typically) not match hidden files. See the last paragraph of the ‘Origin’ section of: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming). Technically yourlscommand (lacking the-a) flag would also skip hidden files, but since your comment mentions finding the string in ‘any files,’ I figured hidden files should also be covered (thefindcommands listed would also find the hidden files).