At Linux command line, to find a particular text string in all the files from the current directory recursively (that is, including all those files from the child or grandchild directories), use something like this via SSH:
find . -exec grep -l "needle" {} \;
This command searches through all directories from the current directory recursively for the files that contain the string “needle”.
To search only .php files:
find *.php -exec grep -l "needle" {} \;
To search a specific directory:
find dirname -exec grep -l "needle" {} \;
To find all .php files that contain “needle” in all the directories under “somedir”:
find somedir -name *.php -exec grep -l "needle" {} \;
BTW, if it spits out this error:
Embrace necessary parameters in double quotes “”. E.g.,
Any harm if I use xargs?
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Hi Yang Yang
i wish you are doing good, my name is henry and i am from Lima, Peru; in this moment i am testing soem software made in china but i cant get the chineese strings out from a binary file, do you any idea how to configure taht STRINGS command to get the chinesse characters? your commend will be helpfull
thanks in advance
henry