I know I can use grep to find a word in all the files present in a folder like this
grep -rn core .
But my current directory has many sub-directories and I just want to search in all xml files present in the current directory and its all sub directories. How can I do that ?
I tried this
grep -rn core *.xml // Does not work
But it searches for xml files present in the current directory only. It does not do it recursively.
Try the --include option
grep -R --include="*.xml" "pattern" /path/to/dir
Reference: Grep Include Only *.txt File Pattern When Running Recursive Mode
Use find:
find /path/to/dir -name '*.xml' -exec grep -H 'pattern' {} \;
I use this often:
grep 'pattern' /path/to/dir/**/*.xml
with zsh