使用grep在多个文件中查找字符串

Question

I have a folder with sub-folders inside, all have many types of files. I want to search for a word inside the .css -files. I am using Windows 7 and I have grep .

How I can use grep to :

1. Find pattern and print it
2. Give file name (and path) if pattern found

Answer 1

Actually you don't need find . Just use:

grep -R --include=*.css -H pattern .

this will recurse and look for all *.css in subdirectories, while -H will show the filename.

Answer 2

find folder/ -name "*.css" |xargs grep "your-pattern"

You will need to install cygwin to do this.

Answer 3

if the files in which we have to look for, has pattern then we can use this. Consider I'm looking for pattern "cardlayout" in files named chap1.lst chap2.lst and so on. then the command

grep -e 'cardlayout' ` find . -name "chap??.lst"`

hope this would help