12 Answered Questions for the topic grep

07/05/19

How can I use grep to show just filenames on Linux?
How can I use `grep` to show just file-names (no in-line matches) on Linux? I am usually using something like: find . -iname "*php" -exec grep -H myString {} \\; How can I just get the... more
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07/03/19

How can I use grep to show just filenames on Linux?
How can I use `grep` to show just file-names (no in-line matches) on Linux? I am usually using something like: find . -iname "*php" -exec grep -H myString {} \\; How can I just get the... more
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05/26/19

grep a tab in UNIX?
How do I `grep` tab (\ ) in files on the Unix platform?
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05/26/19

grep, but only certain file extensions?
I am working on writing some scripts to `grep` certain directories, but these directories contain all sorts of file types. I want to `grep` just `.h` and `.cpp` for now, but maybe a few others in... more
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05/25/19

How can I exclude directories from grep -R?
I want to traverse all subdirectories, except the "node_modules" directory.
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05/23/19

How do I grep recursively?
How do I recursively `grep` all directories and subdirectories? find . | xargs grep "texthere" *
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05/14/19

How can I exclude directories from grep -R?
I want to traverse all subdirectories, except the "node_modules" directory.
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05/13/19

grep, but only certain file extensions?
I am working on writing some scripts to `grep` certain directories, but these directories contain all sorts of file types. I want to `grep` just `.h` and `.cpp` for now, but maybe a few others in... more
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05/02/19

How to 'grep' a continuous stream?
Is that possible to use `grep` on a continuous stream? What I mean is sort of a `tail -f <file>` command, but with `grep` on the output in order to keep only the lines that interest... more
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04/20/19

How to grep a string in a directory and all its subdirectories' files in LINUX?
How to grep a string or a text in a directory and all its subdirectories'files in LINUX ??
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03/15/19

How do I grep recursively?
How do I recursively `grep` all directories and subdirectories? find . | xargs grep "texthere" *
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03/14/19

grep, but only certain file extensions?
I am working on writing some scripts to `grep` certain directories, but these directories contain all sorts of file types. I want to `grep` just `.h` and `.cpp` for now, but maybe a few others in... more
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