Grep

Liens

Make fuzzy search with agrep http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9778/approximate-grep-for-finding-typos

http://www.selectorweb.com/grep_tutorial.html

Cas pratiques

• Only the files
  Retrieve only the files in which the string is found whatever the number of instance in this file
  grep -rl "my string

• Files inside a specific dir
  grep -r "autocomplete" sites/all/modules/nodequeue

• Exclude dir
  Chercher dans les fichiers mais pas dans les fichiers binaires (images...)
  grep -rn "petite question" * --exclude-dir='files'

• Escape special character
  Echapper les caractère spéciaux

grep -rn "\$vars\\['comment'\]" * --exclude-dir="files"

• Grep on the files searched by find

• Search in a specific file
  find -type f -name *rue89block.inc* -exec grep "3 voix" {} \;

• Search in all .install files the pattern "nodequeue" find -type f -name *.install -exec grep -rn nodequeue {} \;

• Escape special character (here regular expression)

```grep -rn "\['options'\]\\['status'\]"```

To search ['option']['status'] typical drupal form array