Grepping through subdirectories

Posted on 2007-04-12

This is how to grep recursively through subdirectories but only for files that match a specific pattern:

grep -l -r --include=*.htm regex *

The equivalent command with find is:

find . -name '*.htm' -exec grep -l regex \{\} \;

The option after grep is the lowercase letter L, not the number 1). Remove the -l to see the actual matches instead of the file names.

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