I need to search a large amount of files on my hosting that runs cPanel.
They don't have SSH, is there a way I can run grep in any other way to search my files for a certain piece of text?
2 Answers
<?php
$command = "grep -ri 'abcdef' ./*";
$output = shell_exec($command);
echo "$output";
echo "Grep job over.";
?>
Change to suit your required grep search.
Save as grep.php. Then upload to root directory and visit the URL
http://Your Site/grep.php
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It is confusing when you provide solutions that span multiple entries.X Tian– X Tian2015-10-20 16:09:27 +00:00Commented Oct 20, 2015 at 16:09
Yes you can use grep command without shell. First you need to check function is enable shell_exec enable in php.ini then you can use.
