On 3/26/25 3:52 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/26/25 2:49 PM, Go Canes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James loganjerry@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use this:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null
[...]
How do I get this to work even when the search string includes (especially starts with) printable characters other than digits and letters?
The problem is that those strings start with a '-', so grep thinks you are specifying more option. Add -e before your search string:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l -e -ob9LHPEaKY [dir]
Also, you're working kind of hard here. You might find grep's recursive search option a little easier to use:
grep -rle -ob9LHPEaKY [dir]
Or if you wish to use find, try "find . -type f -name '*ob9LHPEaKY*'". Note that with the "*" wildcard you need to put the string in single quotes. If you want a case-insensitive match, use -iname instead of -name.
He's searching in the files, not searching for a filename.
Thank-you Samuel. The "-I" works. Now I just gotta redefine my aliases in my "~/.bashrc".
SOLVED! Thank-you, everyone.