Cultivate Web Design Melbourne - Development Blog » linux http://cultivatewebdesign.com.au/blog Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:16:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Search file contents recursively for a matching string http://cultivatewebdesign.com.au/blog/search-file-contents-recursively-for-a-matching-string/ http://cultivatewebdesign.com.au/blog/search-file-contents-recursively-for-a-matching-string/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:44:16 +0000 Chris Gunn http://cultivatewebdesign.com.au/blog/?p=110 I use thing to find where an error message came from or to check if I left behind any debuging/testing the code.

grep -R "string to search for" ./*

more info at grep man page

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