- #WINDOWS FIND FILES CONTAINING TEXT RECURSIVELY MANUAL#
- #WINDOWS FIND FILES CONTAINING TEXT RECURSIVELY FULL#
The execution of the above commands will locate the perl binary and display the full path(s) to it. For example, to find a certain file in the whole server, it would be best to use an alternative command – whereis or which: whereis perl In some rare cases, find and grep may prove not useful. For example, the line below will only output configuration.php result: ls -la | grep configuration.php If recursive is true, the pattern will match any files and zero or more directories, subdirectories and symbolic links to directories.
Grep can also be used to filter the results from other commands. Solution To search a file for an exact (but case insensitive) match, use the Simple parameter of the SelectString cmdlet: PS >SelectString Simple SearchText file. This will display the filenames containing the word “ database”, but will not actually list the line containing it. Problem You want to find a string or regular expression in a file. To only list the file names containing the string you are searching but omit the line containing it, you can use the -l argument: grep -l "database" * This will make grep look recursively ( -r option) and provide the result in a human-readable format ( -H option) for the string “ database” in all (*) files under the current working directory. If you don’t know which file contains the text, you can use: grep -r -H "database" *
The above command instructs grep to look for the string “ database” in the configuration.php file and display the containing line.
#WINDOWS FIND FILES CONTAINING TEXT RECURSIVELY MANUAL#
For a full list it is recommended to check the manual pages by typing man grep.Īn example of using grep to find a certain text can be found below: grep "database" configuration.php Grep is a very powerful tool and accepts various command line arguments. On a POSIX filesystem recursive listings will follow symbolic links to directories. The command you should be using, in this case, is grep. The pattern matching works with the case of file names as returned by the OS. You can also search for a given text in the content of the files as well. Or if you want to filter only files modified in the last 2 days, you would need to use: find. If you would like to list only directories and leave all files out of the result: find. If you are uncertain about the file name or would like to match a part of the name, you can use a wildcard pattern: find. Find is a very powerful tool and accepts various arguments allowing you to specify the exact search term (i.e search by name, by type or even by modified time).įor example, to search for a file called myFile.txt under the current folder (and all subfolders), you would need to use the following command: find. In order to search for a file location, you can use the find command. SSH provides two different commands, which can be used to accomplish this. In some cases, you would need to find the location of a given file or to search for a certain text in all files under a directory.