Searching within groups of files

[logick]

Hey guys,

is there a way within Debian to search for a phrase that lies within a set of documents?

e.g. if I wanted to find every occurence of the phrase "GetFITSWCS" in a collection of 35 text documents, without going through each one individually - like a file search, but searching within the files.

Thanks,
Ollie

[smallchange]

Grep is the program that does this. Something like

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grep GetFITSWCS file1 file2

or

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grep GetFITSWCS *.txt

You can find out more about grep by running

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man grep

[keithpeter]

Hello Logik and all

Grep?

Load the terminal and cd to the directory with the text files in

http://www.uccs.edu/~ahitchco/grep/

Nice looking tutorial page with examples

Smallchange hit the publish button first

[logick]

Thanks guys, that was perfect. Cheers!

[smallchange]

That is a nice little tutorial. Covers the basics of a large topic.