[Novalug] bash commands

Jeff Stoner leapfrog at freeshell.org
Fri Jan 18 14:53:20 EST 2008


On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Nino Pereira wrote:

> I'd like to search all the files in a directory
> for the occurrence of a particular
> string. It must be something like
>
> do (until you have had all the files)
>  cat *.f | grep --with-filename 'string'
> od
>
> but I don't have an example to modify from. Can you point me
> to one?

Got GNU grep?

grep -r 'string' *.f


--Jeff

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