String search in a set of files!!!

[Deepu Chakravarty]

If I have few files and want to search a partcular word/string in those files, what should be the actual command? So that a single command can give all occurrances of that word in those files.

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal · Accepted solution]

find . -name "your_wild_card" -type f -exec grep -l "search_string" {} \;

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Clicked the submit button bit quickly.

The "-l" option will give you the filename.

You can also use the for loop.

for filename in `find . -type f -name "pattern"`; do grep -l "search_string" $filename; ... done;

[Eknath]

HI Deepu,

If you want to search in all files in current directory (All files need to be text)
just say #grep "Your Text" *

Cheers!!!
eknath

[Deepu Chakravarty]

thanks to all who participated in this thread.