Searching for specific value witin files in a directory

[hugheskbh]

Can anyone tell me if there's a way to scan for a specific value within all the files of a directory with one command.

 

[stanhubble]

man grep

 

[PHV]

You can try something like this:

grep 'ValueSearched' /path/to/dir/*

If you get Arg list too long you can try this:[/code]
cd /path/to/dir; grep 'ValueSearched' *[/code]
If you still have too many files, try this:

cd /path/to/dir; ls | xargs grep 'ValueSearched'

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[kduffin]

If you want to recursively search the directory and other directories that may be therein, try:

find /path/to/dir -type f | xargs grep 'ValueSearched'

Cheers,

Keith