johnjones.org Life is a journey, not a destination http://johnjones.org/node/17/atom/feed 2008-08-17T12:21:53+00:00 Linux finding text inside files http://johnjones.org/2007/07/linux_finding_text_inside_file.html 2007-07-09T23:00:00+00:00 2008-08-17T12:21:53+00:00 Anonymous

Well this one is just so I remember how to do this, I keep forgetting the exact syntax and have to look it up on other sites, so if I put it on mine I know where it is....
in the shell
find . -type f -exec grep -i "phrase to find" {} \; -print
this finds starting from the "." location all files that contain the "phrase to find" and in a case insensitive way.

Well this one is just so I remember how to do this, I keep forgetting the exact syntax and have to look it up on other sites, so if I put it on mine I know where it is....

in the shell

find . -type f -exec grep -i "phrase to find" {} \; -print

this finds starting from the "." location all files that contain the "phrase to find" and in a case insensitive way.