Comment on How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ?
JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 9 months agogrep -r string .
The flag should go before the pattern.
-r
to 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 your ls
command (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 (the find
commands listed would also find the hidden files).