On 3/26/25 2:49 PM, Go Canes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use this:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null
[...]
How do I get this to work even when the search string includes (especially
starts with) printable characters other than digits and letters?
The problem is that those strings start with a '-', so grep thinks you
are specifying more option. Add -e before your search string:
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l -e -ob9LHPEaKY [dir]
Also, you're working kind of hard here. You might find grep's
recursive search option a little easier to use:
grep -rle -ob9LHPEaKY [dir]
Or if you wish to use find, try "find . -type f -name '*ob9LHPEaKY*'".
Note that with the "*" wildcard you need to put the string in single
quotes. If you want a case-insensitive match, use -iname instead of
-name.
He's searching in the files, not searching for a filename.
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