Re: Grep for a sentence in windows directory

[Athanasius]

Here is a one-liner you can use:

>cd c:\dropbox
>perl -Mautodie -E "local $/; @f = grep { if (-f) { open($fh, '<', $_)
+; <$fh> =~ / connection failed/ && $_ } } glob('*'); say qq[@f];"

(But I’m sure there are more elegant solutions.)

Update: Using ack, as Anonymous Monk suggests, is as simple as:

>cd c:\dropbox
>ack -ln " connection failed"

The -l switch causes filenames to be output instead of the matching lines, and the -n switch prevents recursion into subdirectories. See also http://betterthangrep.com/.