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if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100
files from that 50 files there aaa word is written how to
find in which aaa is writen and without opening that file

Question Posted / amit.bk02

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if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100 files from that 50 files there aaa word is..

Answer / pankaj kumar

grep -r aaa aaa

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if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100 files from that 50 files there aaa word is..

Answer / vaithy

grep -r aaa -e aaa

where,
-r recursive (includes all files, Folders and subfolders)
-e pattern (to be searched)

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if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100 files from that 50 files there aaa word is..

Answer / nixor

grep -rl aaa ./aaa/*

That would list the file name where the string aaa is
present. (-l switch)

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if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100 files from that 50 files there aaa word is..

Answer / m.krishna kumar

#cd aaa
#cat <file name> | grep aaa

this is work only if you know the file name otherwise it is
not use . other way is if you must count the file then find
the file name of the 50 file then use the above command.

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if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100 files from that 50 files there aaa word is..

Answer / brian

Find ./aaa -type f -exec grep -l aaa {} \;

This will list the paths and file names containing the text aaa in any file in the directory named aaa.

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if i have one folder say aaa and that folder having 100 files from that 50 files there aaa word is..

Answer / rallapalli

#cd /aaa | ls -l | grep aaa


see which file time and date through that u can know


Thanks

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