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How to grep a string in a directory and all its subdirectories?

How to grep a string or a text in a directory and all its subdirectories'files in LINUX ??

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What are good grep tools for Windows?

Any recommendations on grep tools for Windows? Ideally ones that could leverage 64-bit OS. I'm aware of Cygwin, of course, …

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How to use sed/grep to extract text between two words?

I am trying to output a string that contains everything between two words of a string: input: "Here is a …

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Grep only the first match and stop

I'm searching a directory recursively using grep with the following arguments hoping to only return the first match. Unfortunately, it …

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How can I exclude directories from grep -R?

I want to traverse all subdirectories, except the "node_modules" directory.

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How to check if a file contains a specific string using Bash

I want to check if a file contains a specific string or not in bash. I used this script, but …

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How can I pipe stderr, and not stdout?

I have a program that writes information to stdout and stderr, and I need to process the stderr with grep, …

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Capturing Groups From a Grep RegEx

I've got this little script in sh (Mac OSX 10.6) to look through an array of files. Google has stopped being …

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How to grep (search) committed code in the Git history

I have deleted a file or some code in a file sometime in the past. Can I grep in the …

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Match two strings in one line with grep

I am trying to use grep to match lines that contain two different strings. I have tried the following but …

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