help with grep

[Clint Wilson_1]

i am not sure if its possible, but i want to use grep to search for a particular string in all files in a certain directory. for example, i need to find out which files in the /code directory contain the string "seriSC"
is this possible?
thanks!

[Christopher McCray_1 · Accepted solution]

#grep "seriSC" /code/*

be careful there are no binaries in this directory and you will be all right. You don't need the quotes, either, unless you have multiple words to search on.

Good luck
Chris

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

cd /code

grep -i serisc *

Depend on the size of the directory it may take some time to give you output

Goodluck..
-USA..

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Jennifer

Try this


cd /code
grep seriSC *


it will give u the files which have this string

Manoj