Searching inside files in a script

[Khan Smith]

   Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 3:46 PM
   From: "Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev" <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
   To: "Khan Smith" <khansmith@mail.com>
   Cc: "help-bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
   Subject: Re: Searching inside files in a script
   grep -r 'pattern' dir
   possibly -E or -P or -F
   -r for recursive into dirs



   I am trying to time the execution of grep using

   tim=${EPOCHREALTIME//[![:digit:]]/.}

   But tim is not returning anything


   On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 17:38 Khan Smith <[1]khansmith@mail.com> wrote:

        I am getting a number of error messages related to functionality
     I
        source to.  I would like to have a function I can run to search a
     text
        pattern on specific directories or files.  What can I do?
        If I select a directory, I want to search inside the files in
     that
        directory.

References

   1. mailto:khansmith@mail.com