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Actually if 'string' is a text pattern to find, it's better to use that functionality, otherwise someone can face problems when the string contains dot or special character which has meaning in regular expressions and not just a dot which should be found as a string, as-is. Then I would use -rlF switches, -F for 'fixed string' (and not regexp - for example).

Of course, if the task was using regexps, then excuse me. Sure, the same theory without -r too, I often see that people assumes grep searches 'text' and it can cause problems which special ones which mean something as a regexp.

– Aug 1 '11 at 12:19 •. If you're looking for lines matching in files, my favorite command is: grep -Hrn 'search term' path/to/files • -H causes the filename to be printed (implied when multiple files are searched) • -r does a recursive search • -n causes the line number to be printed path/to/files can be. To search in the current directory Further options that I find very useful: • -I ignore binary files (complement: -a treat all files as text) • -F treat search term as a literal, not a regular expression • -i do a case-insensitive search • --color=always to force colors even when piping through less. To make less support colors, you need to use the -r option: grep -Hrn search. less -r • --exclude-dir=dir useful for excluding directories like.svn and.git.