Question

I have a useful little command that searches through all files & subdirectories for a particular string:

find . -name "*" -exec grep -il "search term" {} \;

I’d like to turn this into a function that I can put in my .bashrc and call from my shell without needing to remember the whole thing, but I can’t get it working. This is what I have so far:

function ff() { find . -name "*" -exec grep -il $@ \{\} \\\; }

Can anyone help?
Many thanks!

Answer 1

alias ff='grep -irl'

does the same thing but is much simpler and stops unneeded process creation for every file.