Want to find a string with in all subdirectories in a folder

Question

Suppose i'm in a folder

/data/

The folder data contains 10 other folders

/data/temp1
/data/temp2
/data/temp3
and so on

all of which have .gz files in them , i.e temp1 , temp2 , temp3 till temp10 all contain .gz files in them I want to be able to locate a certain string lets suppose ERROR: within ALL files located in all 10 directories.

Is there a command that can help me do this ?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '21 at 11:57

A basic find command should do:

# find /data -name "*.gz" -exec zgrep "ERROR" {} \;

There are a few alternate (and possibly more efficient) ways it could be formatted such as with xargs, but this will do the job, at least insofar as your question has asked.

Want to find a string with in all subdirectories in a folder

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