ack ‘text-to-find-here’
grep -r “string to be searched” /path/to/dir
grep -inr "Text" folder/to/be/searched/command similar to the one you are trying (example: ) for searching in all javascript files (*.js):
find . -name '*.js' -exec grep -i 'string to search for' {} \; -print
This will print the lines in the files where the text appears, but it does not print the file name.
In addition to this command, we can write this too: grep -rn “String to search” /path/to/directory/or/file -r: recursive search n: line number will be shown for matches
Example
Let’s say you are searching for files containing specific text “Apache License” inside your directory. It will display results somewhat similar to below (output will be different based on your directory content).
bash-4.1$ find . -type f -exec grep -l "Apache License" {} \;
./net/java/jvnet-parent/5/jvnet-parent-5.pom
./commons-cli/commons-cli/1.3.1/commons-cli-1.3.1.pom
./io/swagger/swagger-project/1.5.10/swagger-project-1.5.10.pom
./io/netty/netty-transport/4.1.7.Final/netty-transport-4.1.7.Final.pom
./commons-codec/commons-codec/1.9/commons-codec-1.9.pom
./commons-io/commons-io/2.4/commons-io-2.4.pom
bash-4.1$