Find a string in multiple files using grep

Question

I have a folder with sub-folders inside, all have many types of files. I want to search for a word inside the .css-files. I am using Windows 7 and I have grep.

How I can use grep to :

Find pattern and print it
Give file name (and path) if pattern found

Bitwise · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-06 16:42:01Z

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Actually you don't need find. Just use:

grep -R --include=*.css -H pattern .

this will recurse and look for all *.css in subdirectories, while -H will show the filename.

edited May 6, 2014 at 16:42

answered Sep 7, 2012 at 19:32

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Bitwise Over a year ago

No problem, the dot is where to start recursing from and represents the current directory.

Leo92 Over a year ago

I have some questions: 1.can I use or for file type (txt|css) 2.How I can search for files names and types ?

Vijay Boyapati · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-07 19:16:58Z

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find folder/ -name "*.css" |xargs grep "your-pattern"

You will need to install cygwin to do this.

answered Sep 7, 2012 at 19:16

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lennon310 · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-14 05:18:09Z

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if the files in which we have to look for, has pattern then we can use this. Consider I'm looking for pattern "cardlayout" in files named chap1.lst chap2.lst and so on. then the command

grep -e 'cardlayout' ` find . -name "chap??.lst"`

hope this would help

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