What I am trying to achieve is, I want to find all files under my current root directory that contains words that are in a .txt
file. In more details, I want to find all files that uses a bootstrap3 classname (any file extension).
So, basically, I will have a .txt
that has a list of all bootstrap3 class names (e.g. col-md-1
, container-fluid
, etc.)
I've used grep -lir <word>
to search the files that has the text, but what I want to do is return the files that has any of the words in a specific word set.
How would this work?
CodePudding user response:
From man grep
:
-f FILE, --file=FILE
Obtain patterns from FILE, one per line. If this option is
used multiple times or is combined with the -e (--regexp)
option, search for all patterns given. The empty file
contains zero patterns, and therefore matches nothing.
Something like grep -irl -f words.txt dir-to-search