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@Chris it's possible you don't have.scss files in current directory but somewhere deeper in subdirs so grep does not look in all the files you wanted. You should use -include option to tell grep to look recursively for files that matches specific patterns: grep -r x -include '.scss'. May 26, 2016 - You need the -d skip option added on. Grep is searching inside of files. You can search recursively, as you said, if you want to search files inside of a directory. By default, grep will read all files, and it detects the directories. Searching just within the parent directory would be `grep -d skip 'string'./. Grep -r 'word'. Grep -r 'string'. To ignore case distinctions: grep -ri 'word'. To display print only the filenames with GNU grep, enter: grep -r -l 'foo'. You can also specify directory name: grep -r -l 'foo' /path/to/dir/.c. Find command: Recursively Search All Files For A String.

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I am trying to figure out the correct syntax to find two strings, the entire part of each string, anywhere (doesn't have to be near each other) in a file. So any file that has both foo and say the number 321, doesn't have to be alone and can be a substring should match. I've tried the following without much luck:

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Should be a little faster because the second grep may operate on a list of files.

find is more useful if you want to search recursive directories (in that case lose the -mindepth and -maxdepth options.

kojirokojiro

You can do this with a short script:

You can also do this on one line:

grep returns 0 (true) if it found the string and the && separating the commands means that the second one will only run if the first one was true. The -q option makes sure that grep does not output anything.

The echo will only run if both strings were found in the same file.

I thought of a different way to do it. This way will probably be more efficient if the files in question are larger than your installed RAM as it only has to grep through each file once.

and the one-line version:

Strange. For me both variants work (grep (GNU grep) 2.13):

Edit 1 - show files with both matches only

The for file in * answer works but can become a performance nightmare (for big amounts of files): at least two processes per file. This is faster (in the GNU world):

string1 should be the one which results in fewer matches.

Hauke Laging

Grep In All Subdirectories

Hauke Laging

Basically, to find all files including a particular string in a directory, you can use:

• -l: to make this scanning will stop on the first match
• -i: to ignore case distinctions in both the pattern and the inputfiles
• -r: search all files under directory, recursively

To search for two patterns, try this:

Grep All Files In Directory With Extension

quantaquanta

Should be

Use -e for multiple patterns

EDIT

In case you need both to match:

If the order does not matter:

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