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copied!<h2>Try doing this</h2> <p>using <a href="/questions/tagged/grep" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'grep'" rel="tag">grep</a> : </p> <pre><code>grep -Hri function_name . </code></pre> <p>if you want only the path :</p> <pre><code>grep -ril function_name . </code></pre> <h2>Explanations</h2> <ul> <li>the trailing <code>.</code> stands for <em>current directory</em></li> <li><code>-i</code> : <em>case-insensitive</em></li> <li><code>-r</code> : <em>recursive</em></li> <li><code>-H</code> : <em>Print the file name for each match</em></li> <li><code>-l</code> : <em>Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed.</em></li> </ul> <p>See <a href="http://betterthangrep.com/" rel="noreferrer"><code>man grep</code></a></p> <h2>Last but not least</h2> <p>An interesting tool is <a href="http://betterthangrep.com/" rel="noreferrer">ack</a>, it will avoid searching in <code>.svn</code>, <code>.cvs</code>, <code>.git</code> dirs and such... It is designed to search code.</p> <p>Example : </p> <pre><code>$ cd /usr/share/perl5 $ ack -r 'Larry\s+Wall' site_perl/Inline/C.pm 370:# bindings to. This code is mostly hacked out of Larry Wall's xsubpp program. core_perl/overload/numbers.pm 5:# Copyright (C) 2008 by Larry Wall and others core_perl/CPAN.pm 876:# From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> </code></pre> <p>or just file path :</p> <pre><code>$ ack -rl 'Larry\s+Wall' vendor_perl/LWP.pm site_perl/Inline/C.pm core_perl/overload/numbers.pm core_perl/CPAN.pm core_perl/SelfLoader.pm core_perl/AutoLoader.pm core_perl/AutoSplit.pm core_perl/Test/Harness.pm core_perl/XSLoader.pm core_perl/DB.pm </code></pre> <p>No need the ending <code>.</code> with <code>ack</code> (compared to <code>grep</code>)</p>

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