Comments on: Find files containing search terms on Ubuntu

By: Anderson

Anderson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:16:01 +0000

@Ajo :
In fact you can use -R option on grep to do it recursively (maybe it’s a recent thing, this post is back to 2007, I know)

grep -R ‘pattern’ *

By: speed

speed — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:16:07 +0000

how do I find some text only in some specific files in a directory, lets say I want grep to look only in .c files only ?

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:16:55 +0000

@Sergio:

That’s a really awesome find! I’ve always wanted an app like that… will be featuring an article about it.

By: imasdeweb.com

imasdeweb.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:14:01 +0000

Eyyyy… i found it.
Great application for developers (indeed for UBUNTU):

http://regexxer.sourceforge.net

SERGIO

By: imasdeweb.com

imasdeweb.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:26:30 +0000

Now i’m using UBUNTU-LINUX, but before -when i worked in winXP- one of my preferred applications were Agent Ransack (freeware). Here is its offcial webpage:

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

This application is the only i would like to have in UBUNTU. Once it is installed, you simply do click with secondary button mouse over a directory and click on “Search with Agent Ransack”, and… fantastic: it find very rapidly all files (indicating the exact line) wich contains the string you search!!

I would like to know if exists some like this for UBUNTU ))

SERGIO R.

By: Mark Olech

Mark Olech — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:35:34 +0000

I use windows 2000 and xp. I need a way to search withing a list of text files for a specific number. I want to then take the search results and output the lines of text containing this number to a text file, or possibly an html document that will then open up. Basically, I need to output the results into some form of data that I can easily read. Are there any free programs that I can use to do this or do you have any ideas?

By: Ajo Paul

Ajo Paul — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:44:34 +0000

find . -name “filenames” -exec grep -i -H -n ‘texttofind’ {} \;

To search within sub-directories