I'm having difficaul开发者_开发百科tiesSearching within a whole directory and sub directories for a certain phrase using grep or a better command in linux to find a sentense'
I use the following command grep -rni this is a test * but it seems not to search correctly.
Am I doing something wrong?
you need to quote your search term
grep -rin "this is a test" *
Add quotes to your search term. Otherweise, grep interpretes "this", "is", "a" and "test" as arguments.
the following should work:
grep -rin "this is a test" *
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