grep

grep⚑

Usage⚑

Common options⚑

• -r: recursively search a directory.
• -i: ignore case.
• -l: print only the path of the files that have at least one match.
• -E: use extended RegEx.
• -o: print only the match.

Limit results line length⚑

First 400 bytes of the line:

grep "foobar" * | cut -b 1-400

This might leave the match out, but it's simple to use and enough for most cases. The other option is:

grep -rEo ".{0,10}wantedText.{0,10}" *