Searching files in the server and searching string inside the source code

Question

Are there software that enables you to search files or string inside your sourcecode that's on the server? The text editor i'm currently using is Coda by Panic and the Server i'm using is Amazon EC2. I wanted to search a "string" inside a file and I also wanted to search a certain file (eg style.css).

any ideas how can I achieve this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can simply use grep from terminal with -r recursive option.

$ grep -r "string" /folderToSearch/

Or search a single file

$ grep "string" /folder/filename.ext