Comments on: Some Useful Unix File Finding Commands http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2010/02/some-useful-unix-file-finding-commands.html Tutorials, Java, J2EE, Struts, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, Web 2.0, MySQL, Articles Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:36:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Farishhttp://viralpatel.net/blogs/2010/02/some-useful-unix-file-finding-commands.html/comment-page-1#comment-13653 Farish Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:30:00 +0000 http://viralpatel.net/blogs/?p=2010#comment-13653 to find text inside files (in current directory and also subdirectories), grep can be used recursively:<code>grep -r "findthistext" *</code>if text is to be searched in only a type of files e.g. text files or shell scripts:<code> grep -r "findthistex" *.txt grep -r "findthistex" *.sh </code> to find text inside files (in current directory and also subdirectories), grep can be used recursively:

grep -r "findthistext" *

if text is to be searched in only a type of files e.g. text files or shell scripts:


grep -r "findthistex" *.txt
grep -r "findthistex" *.sh

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