Albretch Mueller <lbrt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to: > ~ > search for files using a pattern (say all files with a certain extension) > ~ > then search inside each of the found files for a word or regexp pattern > ~ > You could do this using find, cat and grep in a script, but I was > wondering about how could you do it with a oneliner
http://www.athabascau.ca/html/depts/compserv/webunit/HOWTO/find.htm Look down to "How to find a string in a selection of files". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find Look down to "Search for a string" But the newer style is to pipe find into xargs: http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/07/efficiency-of-find-exec-vs-find-xargs.html http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2005-March/006255.html http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/19217-difference-between-xargs-exec.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009171857.o8hivtsn053...@kzsu.stanford.edu
