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I need to find the folder names along with the file names which has my string in their contents. I am in this directory "/data/queue/data" and I have lot of folders in the same directory and inside those each folders, I have various files.

I want to run a command which can find me folder name and the file names which has a particular string like this "badezimmer" in their contents. What is the fastest way to do this?

Below are the folders in this directory "/data/queue/data" and each of those folders has various files in it.

david@machineA:/data/queue/data$ ls -lrth drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 12K Apr 11 18:58 1428800400 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 12K Apr 11 19:58 1428804000 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 12K Apr 11 20:58 1428807600

I want to run a command from this directory only - "/data/queue/data" which can print me the folder names and the files names for that folder if they have my string in their contents.

david@machineA:/data/queue/data$ some command to find the folder and files which has my string.
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  • You mean like find /data/queue/data -name *badezimmer*? Or are you talking about files containing the string in their contents? Commented Apr 13, 2015 at 21:28
  • I mean files containing strings in their contents. Sorry for the confusion Commented Apr 13, 2015 at 21:30
  • Then a simple grep -rl badezimmer /data/queue/data will work. Commented Apr 13, 2015 at 21:31
  • I see. And suppose if it is a two words, then I can use like that grep -rl "A B" /data/queue/data. Right? Commented Apr 13, 2015 at 21:33
  • Yes - that's correct. Commented Apr 13, 2015 at 21:34

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As discussed, the following will do what you want:

grep -rl 'badezimmer' /data/queue/data

From the man page for grep(1):

-l, --files-with-matches Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed. The scanning will stop on the first match. -r, --recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command line. This is equivalent to the -d recurse option.
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