how do I use the grep --include option for multiple file types?

Question

When I want to grep all the html files in some directory, I do the following

grep --include=\"*.html\" pattern -R /some/path

which works well. T

Answer 1

Try this. -r will do a recursive search. -s will suppress file not found errors. -n will show you the line number of the file where the pattern is found.

    grep "pattern" <path> -r -s -n --include=*.{c,cpp,C,h}

Answer 2

Use grep with find command

find /some/path -name '*.html' -o -name '*.htm' -o -name '*.php' -type f 
 -exec grep PATTERN {} \+

You can use -regex and -regextype options too.

Answer 3

It works for the same purpose, but without --include option. It works on grep 2.5.1 as well.

grep -v -E ".*\.(html|htm|php)"

Answer 4

You can use multiple --include flags. This works for me:

grep -r --include=*.html --include=*.php --include=*.htm "pattern" /some/path/

However, you can do as Deruijter suggested. This works for me:

grep -r --include=*.{html,php,htm} "pattern" /some/path/

Don't forget that you can use find and xargs for this sort of thing to:

find /some/path/ -name "*.htm*" -or -name "*.php" | xargs grep "pattern"

HTH

Answer 5

Try removing the double quotes

grep --include=*.{html,php,htm} pattern -R /some/path

Answer 6

is this not working?

  grep pattern  /some/path/*.{html,php,htm}