Find all files containing a word

grep -rHi searchphrase *.php

shorter :p

Sample Output

user@host:~/$ grep -rHi info *.php
noclick.php:for your info
noclick.php:or information
noclick.php:both match info

By: psybermonkey

2010-01-15 00:23:25

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Find all files containing a word

This command will find all files recursively containing the phrase entered, represented here by "searchphrase". This particular command searches in all php files, but you could change that to just be html files or just log files etc. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
adam@linux:/home$ find . -name "*.php" | xargs grep -il searchphrase
./adam/temp.php
./adam/temp1.php
./adam/temp2.php
adam@linux:/home$
```
2

find . -name "*.php" | xargs grep -il searchphrase

refrax · 2010-01-14 22:42:36 6
Find all files containing a word

This is very similar to the first example except that it employs the 'exec' argument of the find command rather than piping the result to xargs. The second example is nice and tidy but different *NIXs may not have as capable a grep command.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-1

find . -name "*.php" -exec grep -il searchphrase {} \;

unixmonkey7797 · 2010-01-16 05:09:30 5
Find all files containing a word

Will find all files containing "sample" in the current directory and in the directories below.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-9

find . -exec grep -l "sample" {} \;

whoami · 2010-01-16 13:12:52 5

What Others Think

yeah... try to find any word in a .doc with this command ! lol. The xargs is necessary.

unixmonkey7859 · 765 weeks and 1 day ago

find . -path "*sample*" if it isn't a script, fd is less verbose and has colors: fd sample

snejus · 208 weeks and 4 days ago

rahimhh21 · 106 weeks and 1 day ago

Perfecthomepugs · 97 weeks and 4 days ago

pugpuppies95 · 59 weeks and 5 days ago

yeneba6574 · 14 weeks and 5 days ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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