The process of using recursive grep to search through all directories and subdirectories involves using the following command:
grep -r <search term> <directory>
Where:
-r
is the recursive flag that tells grep
to search through all directories and subdirectories<search term>
is the term that you want to search for<directory>
is the directory where you want to start the searchFor example, if you want to search for the term "apple" in the directory /home/user/documents/
, the command would be:
grep -r apple /home/user/documents/
This command will search for the term "apple" in all files within the /home/user/documents/
directory and its subdirectories.
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Asked: 2022-05-06 11:00:00 +0000
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