grep -r -n stringToSearchFor .
If you want to include 1 lines before, and 2 lines after the occurrence in the file as well, use
grep -r -n -B 1 -A 2 stringToSearchFor .
Friday, August 23, 2013
Linux - Recursively Finding Files Containing Text
Find all files at current directory and below containing the string "stringToSearchFor", and include the line number (that's what the "-n" option does):
grep -r -n stringToSearchFor .
If you want to include 1 lines before, and 2 lines after the occurrence in the file as well, use
grep -r -n -B 1 -A 2 stringToSearchFor .
grep -r -n stringToSearchFor .
If you want to include 1 lines before, and 2 lines after the occurrence in the file as well, use
grep -r -n -B 1 -A 2 stringToSearchFor .
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