Grep (search) through files in multiple folders avoiding .svn directories

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 12, 2007 - 9:25am

How to grep through all modules and include files in the Drupal code base
http://www.drupal4hu.com/node/78

grep LOWER modules//.{module,inc} includes/*inc

And everybody has their own way. See the link.

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Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 14, 2007 - 3:30pm.

"LOWER" is the example word being searched for above.

This has to be run from the drupal root directory.

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on November 18, 2007 - 1:00pm.

Better at dealing with nested directories:
grep -nHR sought_string /path/to/root/directory

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