anon_coder
4/2/2019 - 12:04 PM
find all files that contain a string and write to file
grep -R "my_string" *
grep -rln --include \*.R --include \*.Rmd "value" | while read -r line; do echo; echo $line; done > M:/files_to_check.txt
# -l just lists name.
# -r or -R are recursive (looks in subdirectories)
# -n gives the line number in the file
# find files which contain "foo", and pipe those files to a grep looking for "bar"
grep -lrZ "foo" * | xargs -0 grep -lr "bar"