You can use grep -ilR:
grep -Ril "text-to-find-here" /
istands for ignore case (optional in your case).Rstands for recursive.lstands for "show the file name, not the result itself"./stands for starting at the root of your machine.
Do the following:
grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/'-e 'pattern'-ror-Ris recursive,-nis line number, and-wstands for match the whole word.-l(lower-case L) can be added to just give the file name of matching files.
Along with these, --exclude, --include, --exclude-dir or --include-dir flags could be used for efficient searching:
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This will only search through those files which have .c or .h extensions:
grep --include=\*.{c,h} -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern" -
This will exclude searching all the files ending with .o extension:
grep --exclude=*.o -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/'-e "pattern"- Just like exclude files, it's possible to exclude/include directories through
--exclude-dirand--include-dirparameter. For example, this will exclude the dirs dir1/, dir2/ and all of them matching *.dst/:
grep --exclude-dir={dir1,dir2,*.dst}-rnw '/path/to/somewhere/'-e "pattern"This works very well for me, to achieve almost the same purpose like yours.
