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I need to grep for a string but only within certain files within a directory- eg:
grep -rl mystring “file1.txt file2.txt file3.blah”
what is the correct syntax? I am working in a Linux OS.
Drop the quotes around the file names so that they are treated as separate parameters. Also, I don’t think you need the -r since you are just specifying files and not folders.
You might want to check out http://ss64.com/bash/grep.html (or man grep) for other examples.