Recursive grep

1 Comment Published September 11th, 2008 in Linux Tags: .

I always need it, and I always forget it. How to recursively search files containing a given string on unix:

grep -r "TABLE_NAME" . --include=*.sql

Written here for future memory.

Windows users have the dog performing searches, unfortunately it's not a smart one.

1 Luigi Aug 3rd, 2010 at 11:28

Another way that works on other unix environment (MINGW32), is using grep in combination with find:

$ find . -name pom.xml -exec grep -Hi “log4j” {} \;

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