Find Text and Files

Find Text

ripgrep searches significantly faster in comparison to grep.

$ rg 'test' -g '*.py'

ripgrep supports formats zip, gzip, bzip2, xz, lzma, zstd, etc.. To search inside gzipped file:

$ rg -z --text 'test' file.gz

rga can search in pdf and docx/odt files.

$ rga test *

Find "update" in all files recursively and show line number using grep:

$ grep -r --color -n "update" *

Find "Debian" in html and md files:

$ grep -r --color -n --include="*.{html,md}" --exclude-dir=.git "Debian" *

Find "Google" excluding files "*hosts.txt" and directory "img":

$ grep -r --color -n --exclude-dir="img" --exclude="*hosts.txt" "Google" *

Find png files recursively (current directory and sub-directories) and sort by path:

$ find . -name "*.png" | sort

Filter files having "deb" in file name ignoring text case and within current directory:

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*deb*"

Count files with "AA" in name:

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*AA*" | wc -l