Summary: grep for a word in the whole filesystem
2007-12-24 22:14:00
Here are what I found useful:
find . -type f -exec grep -li foo {} \;
find . -type f | xargs grep "foo"
find . -type f -exec printf "'%s'\n" {} \; | xargs grep foo /dev/null
find . -type f -print |xargs grep -l "foo"
find . -depth -type f -exec grep 'foo' {} \; -print
find . -type f -exec strings {} \; | grep foo
find <path_filesys> -xdev -type f -exec grep -w <word> {} /dev/null \;
-xdev will stop you crossing mount points
/dev/null will show the file that matches the string and also the string
match
rgrep from http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/rgrep.txt
Sincerely,
Dan
>From: "Dan Lee" <koinonia98 at hotmail.com>
>To: codeprof at codeprof.com
>Subject: grep for a word in the whole filesystem
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:22:25 -0500
>
>Folks,
>
>Is there a way to grep for a pattern in the entire filesystem? I would
>like
>to be able to grep for example the word "foo" without the knowledge of
>where
>it is located. It can be in any directories or partitions. Do I use a
>combination of find and grep? Hopefully, it will skip any binary
>executable
>files within the search to avoid the command being hang.
>
>TIA,
>dan
>
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