I've found out this is not as easy as I thought at first:on the other OS we know,all text files end with the .txt extension,which makes searching for them quite straightforward-no such thing on Linux,so how can I search for text files in a directory where they may be (and actually are) intermixed with all kinds of other files ?
I've been using this to search an entire directory recursively for a specific phrase in my code (html, css, php, javascript, etc.):
Code:
find dir_name -type f -exec grep -l "phrase" {} \;
The problem is that it searches ALL files in the directory 'dir_name', even binary ones such as large JPEG images.
I've been using this to search an entire directory recursively for a specific phrase in my code (html, css, php, javascript, etc.):
Code:
find dir_name -type f -exec grep -l "phrase" {} \;
The problem is that it searches ALL files in the directory 'dir_name', even binary ones such as large JPEG images.
Add a string to a text file from terminal
I've been looking at this thread. The solution (number 2, with ls | grep) works perfectly for files called .txt in the current directory.
Hi im trying a GREP a varaiable which contains a file name and i search it in a list of .txt file and ifs its found the .txt file , it returns the name of the txt file name..the snippet im using is
Code:
foreach my $files (glob('*.txt'))
{
open(my $fh1, $files) or die("Unable to open '$files': $!");
{
if ( grep /$file/, <$fh1> )
{
$Sheet->Cells($row,$col+1)->{'Valu
A while ago, I ran Recoll which created a database on a partition, so that I could quickly search among all the text information in the contents of all files (text file, pdf, djvu, html, etc) in that partition.
Now the partition, for which the Recoll created a database, has been wiped out accidentally, but I can still search in Recoll among those deleted files, because the database of Recoll is s
In this case I have a folder of .txt files I created using drag and copy and paste from Adobe Acrobat PDFs and Text Editor in OSX. I've been editing these files in vim. Now I'm using grep to find notes in these files.
Hello,
I have a file with a large number of words each listed in sequential order one word per line.
I have a complex problem.....
I have to search files on directory "text files"
then search on all of them for a word or sentence....the user inter
my problem is,,,, if I want to create a child for each file...and point a file by pointer to search...and I don't know how much files i have in directory ,,, so i don't know how much pointers should i create....
anyone have an idea how to c
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