How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?
find . | xargs grep "texthere" *
How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories? find . | xargs grep
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How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?
find . | xargs grep "texthere" *
The first parameter represents the regular expression to search for, while the second one represents the directory that should be searched. In this case,
.means the current directory.Note: This works for GNU grep, and on some platforms like Solaris you must specifically use GNU grep as opposed to legacy implementation. For Solaris this is the
ggrepcommand.