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Asked: 2026-06-06T01:04:32+00:00

I would like to search into directory for all files end by .m for

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I would like to search into directory for all files end by .m for string like @”LBL_18989″ @”LBL_15459″ , @”LBL_14359″ …

My command is :

find . type f -name \*.m | grep '@"LBL_[[0-9]"]+'

but it does not give the expected result.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should always quote your arguments. Your -name pattern for find contains an “*”, which means the shell will try to expand it as a glob before passing it to find. You can also use -regex instead of piping the output of find to grep.

    find . -type f -regex '@"LBL_[[:digit:]"]+'

    Based on jdi’s comment, you may be wanted to search the contents of those files for the given regex. If so, you can use the following:

    find . type f -name '*.m' -exec grep -E '@"LBL_[[:digit:]"]+' /dev/null {} +
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