Macos – grep all .java files in a directory for a particular string

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How would I search all .java files for a simple string (not a regex) in the current directory and all sub-directories on Mac OS X? I just want to print a list of file and directory names that match.

Best Answer

And the always popular

find . -name '*.java' | xargs grep -l 'string'

EDIT (by Frank Szczerba):

If you are dealing with filenames or directories that have spaces in them, the safest way to do this is:

find . -name '*.java' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l 'string'

There's always more than one way to do it.

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