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Finding or searching through files and folders
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= Finding or searching through files and folders = | |||
== Search for a string == | |||
A case-sensitive search through all of the files from current folder and below. | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
$ find . | xargs grep -s "mystring" | more | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
A ''case-insensitive'' search through all of the files from current folder and below. | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
$ find . | xargs grep -si "mystring" | more | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
A ''case-insensitive'' search through all of the files from current folder and below, and truncate long search results. | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
$ find . | xargs grep -sioE ".{0,20}mystring.{0,20}" | more | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
= Copy including hidden files = | = Copy including hidden files = | ||