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When using the "grep" command on a Unixoid system, there is a way to search many files from a top-level directory down. In other words, a user can search recursively for a file that contains a certain string. The below commands can each be used to perform a recursive search.
- Case-insensitive -
grep -r -i -e "STRING" ./* - Case-sensitive -
grep -r -e "STRING" ./* - Case-insensitive (rarely used) -
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -i -e "STRING" ./*
- Case-insensitive -
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