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linuxgrepfile-ownership

GREP for String owned by a certain group


I need to do something like this

grep -R 'MyString' dir/

But instead of searching within a directory, I'd like to search all files owned by a specific group. Is this possible?


Solution

  • Use the -group option of find as shown below:

    find mydir -group mygroup -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep MyString