Use Grep To Find Text In Folders

Apr 3, 2009 · 1 minute read
Category: linux

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Sometimes it can be really hard to figure out exactly which file a chunk of code is coming from. At times like this the command line tool grep is immensely useful.

This snippet of code will search all php files within a specified folder. It will check through all files and sub folders for the string id=“something”


find /path/to/root/search/folder/ -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'id="something"'