Useful Linux Commands

*Note this is out of date, there are better commands for doing this…

search for files containing text:

this searches in this directory (and subdirectories) for anything ending in ‘.h’

find * -name *.h | xargs grep string

but this has problems with spaces in the paths..

grep –with-filename string `find * . -name *.h`

makes to big of an argument list….

find . -name *.h -printf \“%p\”\\n | xargs grep taylor

this fixes the problem with the spaces…