Bash alias to search file contents

Jess Barnes — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:53:35 +0000

This simple Bash alias will search the contents of every file in the current directory (and sub-directories) and return the file names. Very handy when trying to work out which file generated which HTML in large PHP based applications or when trying to find every last instance of a particular string in a bunch of config files.

# Search In Files
sif() {
    grep -EiIrl "$*" ./*
}

Either use the grep command by itself, replacing the $* with your search string for a one time use, or add this to your .bashrc file to be able to search by typing: sif search string

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Bash alias to search file contents