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tags: ‘shell, linux, command, development, grep,find’
categories: development

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I use the following command to find a string in a Go repo. The vendor directory is not needed, so skip it.

$ find . -type f |grep -v vendor|cut -d":" -f2|xargs grep -n my_search_string

The command find all files in current directory. Next, it removes all files that have vendor in their path.

401:./.git/HEAD
402:./.git/info/exclude
403:./.git/logs/HEAD

The cut command picks the filename and passed to xargs. Each file is then processed by grep for the search string.