How to find all the file names whose

[Zhe]

content includes specified string?
i.e. doing grep -l 'string' *
in every directory.


Thanks in advance!
Henry

[ALPER ONEY · Accepted solution]

please try the following syntax:
find . -exec grep -l 'string' {} \;

I hope it helps.
Regards
ALPER ONEY
I.S.E TAKASBANK INC

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

find / -name "*string*"

HTH

Steve

[steven Burgess_2]

Whoops

find . -name "*" -exec grep -il 'string' {} \;

HTH

Steve

[Zhe]

Hello,

Yes, both of you perfectly answered my question. But, still one problem, I wrote like following,
find . -print -exec grep -l 'string' {} \;

why this command could not give me the correct output?

Thanks !
Henry

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

have u try:

#find . -type f -print |xargs grep -l 'string'

regards.

[ALPER ONEY]

Dear Zhe,
-print option causes the current path name to be printed. So regardless of grep command, it returns all the file names in the current directory.
Regards
ALPER ONEY
I.S.E TAKASBANK INC

[Zhe]

Hi, ALPER ONEY

I'm almost clear. But,

find . -print -exec rm -r {} \;
works fine, why?

Regards,
Zhe

[ALPER ONEY]

Hi Zhe,
for your second example, it is ok to take all the file names(no filter) as the parameter of the command rm -r. But for the example including grep command, you need to get file names only including given string.
Because you do not need to filter any files, you second example works.
I hope it helps.
Regards
ALPER ONEY
I.S.E TAKASBANK INC

[Zhe]

Hi, ALPER ONEY

I got it! Thank a lot!

Regards
Zhe