Delving into Delusion

Searching Files for Keyword in Terminal

 September 13, 2020      Stardate: 74167.1     Tagged as: Terminal

This is a simple post to document a recent learning. I realized my blog had multiple authors listed due to me being inconsistent with how I wrote it. Sometimes I used “Joe” or other times “Joe Lotz”. I googled and found a terminal command to search a directory for keywords.

find /DIR_TO_SEARCH/ -type  f -exec grep --color -HIi 'KEYWORD_OR_PHRASE' {} +