#Use grep to find word in multiple files how to#

home/user/post/how-to-debug-bash-shell-scripts.txt:#Introduction# home/user/post/monthy-newsletter.txt:I'm no expert in MySQL, but anyway I have written three introduction-type MySQL posts, something we all need to know to start, and The output is: /home/user/post/monthy-newsletter.txt:#Introduction# Let's see an example of the output in my PC grep -ri 'Introduction' /home/user/post/ grep -r 'sentence to look for' /home/user/docs/ Well, let's suppose you have a lot of sub-folders, and you do not remember where your file is. grep -i 'sentence to look for' /home/user/docs/ Now, let's suppose you do not know if the sentence was in uppercase or in lowercase, so ask grep to ignore case. grep 'sentence to look for' /home/user/docs/ Look for a document, containing a given stringДЇirst the easy case, you know the exact sentence, you are looking for, and you at least remember the folder where the file is. If you are using Linux, you have grep to help on this job.

Now, thanks to computers this is easier now, than it was in our parents' days.

#Use grep to find word in multiple files how to#

How to find it?, well do a search of all your documents, looking for that word or words or sentence, in other words, look for a string or strings.

Sometimes you remember a phrase or a given word or words, you put in a document, but you do not remember the name of the document. Look for a string, word, or sentence in a file with Linux grep command, recursively