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Searching directories for a line of text


scrubbicus

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Whats confusing about it? Its a Linux comamnd that will search through all files contained within /dir looking for the text 'text to search'. Upon finding the words 'text to search' it will print the file name, line number the text was found on, then the line itself.

 

Of course, you never mentioned what OS your using so this command might not be a great deal of help.

Then you'll likely need to write a script that will loop through each file within your directory using scandir and foreach, read each file into a string using file_get_contents, search this string for your search term using either strstr or preg_match and if the term is found place the file name into an array.

 

You can then loop through the array to list all files containing your search term.

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