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From: Johannes Tax <jo.ey(at)gmx.at>
Date: Sat Aug 25 2007 - 11:10:14 EDT

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do

cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function'

but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's a tool that makes it possible to find a string in a bunch of files and also to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification to the command given above?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Johannes

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