I'm trying to to grep through all the files within a certain directory. Is there a way to recursively list all directories & the files/directories within them via something like ls?
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1Do you want to match filenames or file contents? – that other guy Jan 27 '20 at 19:16
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1http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs; you want `find` rather than `ls` if `grep -r` doesn't do what you need. – tripleee Jan 27 '20 at 19:16
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Looking to match both file names & file contents @thatotherguy – Hays Stanford Jan 27 '20 at 19:18
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@tripleee `grep -r` should solve it. Thanks – Hays Stanford Jan 27 '20 at 19:18
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1FYI, `grep -r` will not match by filename, only file contents. To match by filename, you can use `find mydir -name '*foo*'` or more casually `find mydir | grep foo` – that other guy Jan 27 '20 at 19:20
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Try the -r option for grep. Here is a reference: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-grep-command-to-search-files-in-linux/#recursive-search.
The search matches list out the path to the files that match your pattern as well. Should be easy to extract that out using something like cut
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1Awesome. This answers the question better than the suggested duplicate post found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1987926/how-do-i-grep-recursively – Hays Stanford Jan 27 '20 at 19:17