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📜 Useful grep commands

Useful grep commands

There are several useful grep commands for helping you find and/or replace text in multiple files. Examples:

List all files containing self.get_new_driver(, ignoring ".pyc" files, from the current directory

grep -rl "self.get_new_driver(" * --exclude=\*.pyc OR grep -rl * -e "self.get_new_driver(" --exclude=\*.pyc

To only search .py files, use --include=\*.py:

grep -rl "self.get_new_driver(" * --include=\*.py

Replace all occurrences of "foo_abc" with "bar_xyz" on Linux, for Python files from the current directory

sed -i 's/foo_abc/bar_xyz/g' *.py

Replace all occurrences of "foo_abc" with "bar_xyz" on macOS, for Python files from the current directory

sed -i '' 's/foo_abc/bar_xyz/g' *.py

Find all chromedriver processes (this combines ps with grep):

ps -ef |grep chromedriver

References

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16956810/how-do-i-find-all-files-containing-specific-text-on-linux
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11392478/how-to-replace-a-string-in-multiple-files-in-linux-command-line/20721292#20721292