On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 3/26/25 2:49 PM, Go Canes wrote:
> > 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.
>
> He's searching in the files, not searching for a filename.
Ah! Missed that - sorry!
So use the recursive grep, or "find . -type f -name '*.txt' -exec grep
-l -- ob9LHPEaKY {} \;" to restrict it to just files with a .txt
extension.
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