How to find particular word in directories?

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1

Hello,

i have multiple directories on my server. i need to find specific word like lets says for e.g IPV6 from those directories. can somebody tell me the right command which will let me to that?

2

Go to your home directory or wherever you want to start the search,,
then use find,

find . -type f | grep "keyword" *
3

Your requirements are not clear.

  1. Are you looking for a file named IPV6 in a specific set of directories?
  2. Are you looking for a file named IPV6 in all directories in the file hierarchy rooted in a specific set of directories?
  3. Are you looking for regular files containing the string IPV6 in a specific set of directories?
  4. Are you looking for regular files containing the string IPV6 in all directories in the file hierarchy rooted in a specific set of directories?
  5. Or are you looking for something else I didn't guess?
4

thanks! no ipv6 is not a file name, it is "string" mention in many files which are spread over multiple directories. so answer to your question. # 3 and # 4 is what i am looking for?
you are right # 3 and #4 option from your questions is what i need...

5

Try

grep -rl "keyword" .

This will give you #4 starting from your current direcory

6

thanks!

7

So based on what senhia83 suggested, with some minor corrections:

find /directory1 /directory2 ... /directoryN -type f -exec grep -Fli 'ipv6' +

will give you a list of regular files in the file hierarchies root in the directories /directory1 through /directoryN that contain the case-insensitive string ipv6 .

8

hi,

i try to run the command from my home directory. but dont seem to work. may be i m missing or typo:

find . -type f -exec grep -Fli  'ipv6' +
9

Ouch. Yes. Sorry. try:

find . -type f -exec grep -Fli 'ipv6' {} +