Webb2 jan. 2024 · Grep can be used recursively if we need to search for a string pattern across multiple files in a directory. In order to use grep recursively, we must add the – R tag … Webb1 Answer Sorted by: 60 explainshell helpfully explains your command, and gives an excerpt from man grep: -w, --word-regexp Select only those lines containing matches that form whole words. So just remove -w since that explicitly does what you don't want: grep -rn '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern" Share Improve this answer Follow
Find/replace all files in a directory? (recursively)
Webb8 juli 2024 · 24. There are a mix of files in this directory that start with letters and numbers. Print the filenames (just the filenames) of all files that start with a number recursively in the current directory. Webb10 dec. 2024 · The steps are as follows. Select a directory to replace in. (this could default to the projects root). Select the file extensions to match. (this could initialize from other … rea-karcher
How to use grep to search for strings in files on the Linux shell
Webb14 juni 2024 · Generally, you can use find to recursively list the files and then do the operations with sed or perl. rpl For most quick uses, you may find the command rpl is much easier to remember. Replace foo with bar on all .txt files: rpl -v foo bar '*.txt' Simulate replacing the regex foo.* with bar in all .txt files recursively: Webb14 juni 2024 · There are gazillions of questions and answers regarding how to rename files. I'm new to Linux and this myriad of possible ways and different results and different configurations confuses me. For example: rename works, but not recursively; grep works recursively, but can't be used to search for file and directory names, instead of file … rea peak performance herr