Mac Terminal command - Find string and print with surrounding line
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I have been testing using ack, sed, grep trying to search through files in a directory to find a particular string. I am looking through my database files to check to see if passwords are listed in clear text. So far, I have been able to use this command: grep -Ri "search_string" /path_to_Folder
However, this only outputs the files that contain the string. I want to go one step further and print out the line around the string so I don't have to go in and search each file.
I hope that make sense. Thank you so much.
Asked by user3324136
(123 rep)
Feb 26, 2017, 02:39 AM
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