How Do I Search for a Specific Text in a File in Linux?
Contents How Do I Search for a File Containing a Specific Text in Linux? to Find Files Containing Specific Text in Linux, Do the Following. Open Your Favorite...
How do I search for a file containing a specific text in Linux?
To find files containing specific text in Linux, do the following.
- Open your favorite terminal app. XFCE4 terminal is my personal preference.
- Navigate (if required) to the folder in which you are going to search files with some specific text.
- Type the following command: grep -iRl “your-text-to-find” ./
4 сент. 2017 г.
How do I search for a specific word in a file in Unix?
The UNIX Grep command searches files for a user-specified text pattern. It returns a list of the matching words or shows each line of text that contains them. You can broaden the results by using wildcards. Grep also has the ability to count instances of a search phrase that appear in a file.
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