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  1. How can I grep the results of FIND using -EXEC and still output to a ...

    Dec 17, 2014 · To expand on @gilles answer to make it a little more informative, especially if the list of files you're dealing with is large, you can report the file name (relative path) of each file along with the …

  2. How do I recursively grep all directories and subdirectories?

    Feb 16, 2016 · If you find yourself frequently using grep to do recursive searches (especially if you manually do a lot of file/directory exlusions), you may find ack (a very programmer-friendly grep …

  3. What is the difference between grep -e and grep -E option?

    grep -e PATTERN unless, as stated in an earlier Answer and in the man pages, there are multiple search patterns, or to protect a pattern beginning with a hyphen (-).

  4. linux - What is the point of "grep -q" - Stack Overflow

    May 16, 2019 · Moreover, this is a lot faster than a regular grep invocation, since it can exit immediately when the first match is found, rather than needing to unconditionally read (and write) to the end of file.

  5. How to perform grep operation on all files in a directory?

    436 Working with xenserver, and I want to perform a command on each file that is in a directory, grep ping some stuff out of the output of the command and appending it in a file. I'm clear on the …

  6. Grep: how to add an "OR" condition? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

    Dec 1, 2011 · How can I introduce a conditional OR into grep? Something like, grepping a file's type for (JPEG OR JPG), and then sending only those files into the photos folder. For example. I know how …

  7. How to run grep with multiple AND patterns? - Unix & Linux Stack …

    Mar 25, 2016 · I would like to get the multi pattern match with implicit AND between patterns, i.e. equivalent to running several greps in a sequence: grep pattern1 | grep pattern2 | ... So how to …

  8. Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux

    Jun 6, 2013 · How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents? The following doesn't work. It seems to display every single file in the system. find / -type f -exec grep -H '

  9. Use grep --exclude/--include syntax to not grep through certain files

    Oct 21, 2008 · Searching on grep include, grep include exclude, grep exclude and variants did not find anything relevant If there's a better way of grepping only in certain files, I'm all for it; moving the …

  10. How can I grep for this or that (2 things) in a file?

    grep understands three different versions of regular expression syntax: “basic,” “extended” and “perl.” In GNU grep, there is no difference in available functionality between basic and extended syntaxes. In …