Find PHP files

find . -name "*.php" -exec grep -i -H "search pharse" {} \;

By: wr8cr8

2010-07-22 11:54:45

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Find PHP files

xargs avoids having to remember the "{} \;" (although definitely a useful thing to know. Unfortunately I always forget it). xargs version runs 2x faster on my test fwiw. edit: fixed to handle spaces in filenames correctly.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i "search phrase"

randy909 · 2010-07-27 20:52:37 4

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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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