search dir for string and print file and line number

[boomer1974]

Hi experts,

Does anyone have a small kornshell script or the appropriate command to search a dir and all sub dirs for a certain string and return the file name and the line number where a string is found? Any help would be greately appreciated

Ryan

 

[PHV]

man find
man xargs
man grep

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[scriptdan]

## Replace $dir with the directory you want to search
## i.e . or / or ${HOME}
##
## replace both grep "string"s with the string you
## are searching for
##
for file in $(find dir -exec grep -li string {} \
do
echo "FILE:$file\n________________\n"
grep -n string $file
done

 

[boomer1974]

Thanks very much ScriptDan, that works perfectly

Ryan