Tip - how do I find a phrase/word recursivly in a file tree in linux

Published 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Demon Chung

how do I find a phrase/word recursively in a file tree in Linux? I tried find . -name ./* | grep my_phrase and I tried grep -r "register_long_arrays" *

For further reading: http://superuser.com/questions/182976/how-do-i-find-a-phrase-word-recursivly-in-a-file-tree-in-linux

About Author

Demon Chung

More by Demon Chung

No more topics...

About This Tip

Posted: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago

113 Reads

0 Votes