On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM home user via users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm trying to search a directory sub-tree for a specific string. I use this: > > > > find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l [string] /dev/null [...] > > How do I get this to work even when the search string includes (especially starts with) printable characters other than digits and letters? > > The problem is that those strings start with a '-', so grep thinks you > are specifying more option. Add -e before your search string: > > find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l -e -ob9LHPEaKY [dir] > > Also, you're working kind of hard here. You might find grep's > recursive search option a little easier to use: > > grep -rle -ob9LHPEaKY [dir] Or if you wish to use find, try "find . -type f -name '*ob9LHPEaKY*'". Note that with the "*" wildcard you need to put the string in single quotes. If you want a case-insensitive match, use -iname instead of -name. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
