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benatkin on 01/19/07


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Grep for a string in all files in a directory and its subdirectories with a certain extension

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Searches all HTML files in current directory and subdirectory for the string "cookiemonster.html". Can be used to find which pages link to a page. Further tweaks can find which source files directly include a file. Both file names and the search string are case insensitive.


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  1. fgrep -i 'cookiemonster.html' `find . -iname '*.html' -print`

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