#Find and grep examples windows#

And since everything is a file, you will get a lot of output to sort through. Will find (and print) every file on the system.

Grep -l -r -include '*.js' 'FIRSTWORD' * | xargs grep -L 'SECONDwORD'ĭc0fd654-37df-4420-8ba5-6046a9dbe406 grep -l -r -include '*.In a recent article, Lewis Cowles introduced the find command.įind is one of the more powerful and flexible command-line programs in the daily toolbox, so it's worth spending a little more time on it.Īt a minimum, find takes a path to find things. grep -l -r -include '*.js' 'FIRSTWORD' * | xargs grep 'SECONDwORD' Get the first matched files from grep command and get all the files don't contain some word, but input files for second grep comes from result files of first grep command. Grep -RH 'cats' /home/adam/Desktop/TomAndJerry #absolute directoryĪ short introduction to symbolic links, for anyone reading this answer and confused by my reference to them: If you want to find all mentions of the word cat in the directory /home/adam/Desktop/TomAndJerryĪnd you're currently in the directory /home/adam/Desktop/WorldDominationPlotĪnd you want to capture the filename but not the line number of any instance of the string 'cats', and you want the recursion to follow symbolic links if it finds them, you could run either of the following grep -RH 'cats'. So if you want to find all files containing Darth Vader in the current directory or any subdirectories and capture the filename and line number, but do not want the recursion to follow symbolic links, the command would be grep -rnH 'Darth Vader'. Since you're trying to grep recursively, the following options may also be useful to you: -H: outputs the filename with the line If you want to follow symbolic links as well as actual directories (be careful of infinite recursion), grep -R 'thing to be found' directory If you only want to follow actual directories, and not symbolic links, grep -r 'thingToBeFound' directory Vendor/klaussilveira/gitter/lib/Gitter/Client.php:176: return $this->hidden

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Src/GitList/Application.php:43: 'git.hidden' => $config->get('git', 'hidden') ? $config->get('git', 'hidden') : array(), I can get: /home/vonc/gitpoc/passenger/gitlist/github #grep -include='*.php' -nRHI 'hidden' * This is equivalent to the -binary-files=without-match option.Īnd I can add ' i' ( -nRHIi), if I want case-insensitive results. Process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data Read all files under each directory, recursively this is equivalent to the -d recurse option. (Note: phuclv adds in the comments that -n decreases performance a lot so, so you might want to skip that option) -R, -r, -recursive Prefix each line of output with the line number within its input file. Recurse in directories only searching file matching PATTERN. That includes the following options: -include=PATTERN (As noted by kronen in the comments, you can add 2>/dev/null to void permission denied outputs)

#Find and grep examples windows#

I now always use (even on Windows with GoW - Gnu on Windows): grep -include='*.xxx' -nRHI 'my Text to grep' *