{"id":2827,"date":"2018-09-17T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2018-09-17T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T14:15:46","slug":"how-to-search-linux-files-for-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/2018\/09\/how-to-search-linux-files-for-text\/","title":{"rendered":"How to search linux files for text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>grep -Ril &#8220;text you want to search here&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>The . \u00a0is the current directory&#8230; you can change it to whatever you want&#8230; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-R is for recursive search, \u00a0 I.e subfolders (Remove if you only need the files in a specific folder)<br \/>\n-l \u00a0 is so it spits out just the filenames containing the phrase.<br \/>\n-i is for case insensitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>grep -Ril &#8220;text you want to search here&#8221; . The . \u00a0is the current directory&#8230; you can change it to whatever you want&#8230; \u00a0 -R is for recursive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_seopt_focus_keyword":"","_seopt_seo_title":"","_seopt_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}