I want to search for a string in a file, and the output should give me the line number and line containing that string.
How can I do it?
You can use grep for this.
grep -n yourString yourFile
The general tool for searching in text files is grep
. To run it as you need, just try
grep -n -F "my string" files
The -F
tells grep
to search for exact matches of the string. Otherwise, grep
searches for regular expressions.
-n
tells grep
to return line numbers as well.