Using Grep to find a word inside files

Kevin Harrison

Friday, June 13. 2008

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Using Grep to find a word inside files

Don't use the find command, use grep.

grep -R "the word that is being looked for" /the/folder/to/search

That's it. Well that's it if you don't use |less or any other delimiter. This command is perfect for debugging code, especially when your website is not valid html. Searching through different templates can be very daunting, GREP makes it easy.

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