 | | | About grep | About grep 2004-01-19 - By Ben Yau
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> > My personal favorite is still:
> >
> > find . -type f -exec grep 'abc ' {} /dev/null \;
> >
> Why not just:
> grep -rn "abc " .
>
> Prints filenames and linenumbers, searches recursively (starting with
> ". ", the current directory).
>
"find " can give you more refined control over the files you are looking for.
In John 's example, he is only grepping on regular files (text files)
with -type f. Your example would also grep binary files which is something
you may not want to do. If you don 't care running both, I 'd combine them
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -n "abc "
I also like this becuase occasionally I also want to use -C NUM with grep
(shows NUM lines before and after the matching line)
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -n -C 3 "abc "
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