How to find text for a folder pattern using grep

Question

I have www folder with lots of php projects. Hidden somewhere is a script in a /cli/ folder that I'm trying to find. If I use this in the www folder:

grep -R "mycode" */cli/*

It's only finding files in projectname/cli/

But the cli folder is in a subdirectory somewhere. So I need it to match projectname/subdir/cli/ or projectname/subdir/subdir/cli/ etc.

Sundeep · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-18 14:59:46Z

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See if your shell supports shopt -s globstar (or similar). You can then use **/cli/ to match cli recursively.

Or, using find

find -type d -name 'cli' -exec grep -R 'mycode' {} +

answered Mar 18, 2021 at 14:59

Sundeep

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