Re: Search in files with particular extension

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:00:08 -0700
> From: address@hidden (Bob Proulx)
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> >        How do i restrict the search with files of particular extension 
> > using "grep" command.
> 
> Use the find command.  Example to only grep through html file.
> 
>   find . -name '*.hmtl' -print0 | xargs -r0 grep PATTERN

This is no longer needed, with reasonably current GNU Grep.  The
following is much faster and easier to type:

   grep -R PATTERN . --include="*.html"

It also has an extra bonus of not requiring find and xargs.