search through all *.py files

Question

I am using Mac OS terminal (similar to Linux) and trying to find best way to search inside all files on a computer that has extension *.py

What is the best way to achieve this?

I wanted to put 1 keyword for search and quickly show the whole path of these python files are that contain requested keyword in them..

Solution

Try this,

find / -name '*.py' -exec grep -l "keyword" {} \;

Explanation:

• find / -name '*.py': Find files below / with py extension.
• -exec grep -l keyword {} \; Within the files found, grep for keyword and output the filename instead of the match -l.

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I'm not familiar with Mac OS, but if you have globstar option in your shell, you can use the following:

shopt -s globstar
grep -l keyword /**/*.py

Comments

[ctrl-alt-delor]

I think mac has bash shell (same as Gnu/Linux), but by default not all gnu tools (some are bsd). Your find finds files ending .py (there is no such thing as file-name-extensions, on Unix).