if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100
files from that 50 files there aaa word is written how to
find in which aaa is writen and without opening that file
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Answer / vaithy
grep -r aaa -e aaa
where,
-r recursive (includes all files, Folders and subfolders)
-e pattern (to be searched)
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Answer / nixor
grep -rl aaa ./aaa/*
That would list the file name where the string aaa is
present. (-l switch)
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Answer / m.krishna kumar
#cd aaa
#cat <file name> | grep aaa
this is work only if you know the file name otherwise it is
not use . other way is if you must count the file then find
the file name of the 50 file then use the above command.
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Answer / brian
Find ./aaa -type f -exec grep -l aaa {} \;
This will list the paths and file names containing the text aaa in any file in the directory named aaa.
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Answer / rallapalli
#cd /aaa | ls -l | grep aaa
see which file time and date through that u can know
Thanks
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