How to use grep command to find text including subdirectories I want to find all files which contain a specific string of text The grep command works, but I don't know how to use it for every directory (I can only do it for my current directory) I tried rea
linux - What is the point of grep -q - Stack Overflow Moreover, this is a lot faster than a regular grep invocation, since it can exit immediately when the first match is found, rather than needing to unconditionally read (and write) to the end of file
Using the star sign in grep - Stack Overflow grep itself doesn't support wildcards on most platforms You have to use egrep to use wildcards Shells have a different syntax "*" in the shell is <any string> In egrep it's an operator that says "0 to many of the previous entity" In grep, it's just a regular character
Whats the difference between grep -r and -R - Stack Overflow In the man page: -r Read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command line what exactly does "being on the command line" means? T
Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents? The following doesn't work It seems to display every single file in the system find -type f -exec grep -H '
How can I use grep to find a word inside a folder? 165 grep -nr string my_directory Additional notes: this satisfies the syntax grep [options] string filename because in Unix-like systems, a directory is a kind of file (there is a term "regular file" to specifically refer to entities that are called just "files" in Windows)
How do I fetch lines before after the grep result in bash? The second grep command "grep -oP", finds the matching string and prints everything after it until it reaches the end of the current line, while excluding the matching string
Regex (grep) for multi-line search needed - Stack Overflow I'm running a grep to find any * sql file that has the word select followed by the word customerName followed by the word from This select statement can span many lines and can contain tabs and ne
How can I grep for a filename instead of the contents of a file? grep is used to search within a file to see if any line matches a given regular expression However, I have this situation - I want to write a regular expression that will match the filename itself (and not the contents of the file)
grepping using the result of previous grep - Stack Overflow Is there a way to perform a grep based on the results of a previous grep, rather than just piping multiple greps into each other For example, say I have the log file output below: ID 1000 xyz occ