How to make a regexp search with find recursively . If you want to search only in php files, replace file_pattern with “*.php”
find . -iname
Tag: regexp
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Find: UNIX regexp search down a directory tree
-exec grep -n {} \; -print -
Find and list files containing a string
Recursively search all files matching a regexp in the current directory and then listing them.
find . -type f -name "*.file" | xargs grep -l "STRING"This could also be done like this:
find . -type f -name "*.file" --exec grep -l "STRING" {} \;