Finding files containing 'string'
Ben Stringer
ben at burbong.com
Wed Feb 1 23:05:48 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 19:12 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>
> Yep youthinks right. The problem is in the glob expansion rather than
> grep then because the first recipe does find the .file for me too. Hm
> that makes a lot of sense because I noticed this when I saw grep was not
> descending into ~/.blah/ when given
>
> cd ~
> grep stuff * -R
>
> of course
>
> echo *
>
> doesn't show .files either.
See the "dotglob" option in the bash manpage.
>
> > My favorite..
> >
> > find . -print | xargs grep -i <string>
> >
> > Slower, but in my experince, pretty bulletproof.
Yep - this is my favourite also.
Cheers, Ben
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