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Linux: Does find | xargs grep have limitations?
I've historically performed something like:
find . 2>/dev/null | xargs grep -i something_to_find 2>/dev/null
If my pwd is barfoo (/foo/bar/baz/foofoo/foobar/foobaz/barfoo) it finds matches. ...
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Use command grep and locate
How I can make the grep command locate certain words in the files specified by the routes found by the locate command?
locate my.cnf | grep user
(I want that grep command search the word "user" ...
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How can I pass strings with single quotes to grep?
My desired outcome is the following: to recursively search a directory looking for a given string in all found files. The following command is my usual port of call:
find ./ | xargs grep -ns 'foobar'
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2answers
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using xargs to grep multiple patterns
I have a file that has terms I want to grep for, with each term being one line in the file. I was thinking I could do this with xargs. What I'm able to glean from examples from the man page like this
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xargs grep suggestion
grep -v "\<Swap" instruments.log | awk '{ idx=index($0, "MasterId="); masterId=substr($0, idx+length("MasterId=")+1); masterId=substr(masterId,1,index(masterId,"L")-3); print masterId; }' | xargs ...
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Grep a directory and return list with line numbers
I'm currently trying to learn more about bash scripting and all of that fun stuff, and I pieced together this little command:
find $path | xargs grep -n $pattern | awk '{print $1}'
While this DOES ...
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4answers
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How to search for a word in entire content of a directory in linux
need to search for something in entire content
I am trying:
find . | xargs grep word
I get error:
xargs: unterminated quote
How to achieve this? Thanks.
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bash find xargs grep only single occurence
Maybe it's a bit strange - and maybe there are other tools to do this but, well..
I am using the following classic bash command to find all files which contain some string:
find . -type f | xargs ...
