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# Grep For Files With Multiple Matches
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The `grep` utility is a great way to find files that contain a certain
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pattern:
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```bash
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$ grep -r ".class-name" src/css/
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```
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This will recursively look through all the files in your css directory to
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find matches of `.class-name`.
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Often times these kinds of searches can turn up too many results and you'll
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want to pare it back by providing some additional context.
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For instance, we may only want results where `@media only screen` also
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appears, but on a different line. To do this, we need to chain a series of
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`greps` together.
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```bash
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$ grep -rl "@media only screen" src/css |
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xargs grep -l ".class-name"
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```
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This will produce a list of filenames (hence the `-l` flag) that contain
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both a line with `@media only screen` and a line with `.class-name`.
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If you need to, chain more `grep` commands on to narrow things down even
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farther.
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See `man grep` for more details.
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