Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2008
The 12th day
Recursively search for a string in text files
You know that grep can search recursively? Either you use the -r switch
or ther is a rgrep command on your system. But grep will search also
binary files that can mess up your terminal. To only search in text
files:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep '.*:.*text' | cut -d: -f1 | \
xargs grep "$1"
