[Linux-disciples] grep more than one phrase

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:41:22PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> If you are getting more complex than that, you should probably use perl.

If you want to search for all files that contain both 'foo'
and 'bar', do

grep -irl foo /some/path | xargs -i grep -i bar '{}'

To list only matching *filenames*, rather than displaying
the actual matching lines, replace that last 'grep -i' with
a 'grep -il'.

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