OneWayDirectorySearch.php

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19971428/recursively-search-all-directories-for-an-array-of-strings-in-php?lq=1

$contents_list = array("xyz","abc","hello");
$path = "/tmp/";
$pattern = implode('\|', $contents_list) ;
$command = "grep -r '$pattern' $path";
$output = array();
exec($command, $output);
foreach ($output as $match) {
    echo $match . '\n';
}


function recursiveDirList($dir, $prefix = '') {
    $dir = rtrim($dir, '/');
    $result = array();

    foreach (glob("$dir/*", GLOB_MARK) as &$f) {
        if (substr($f, -1) === '/') {
            $result = array_merge($result, recursiveDirList($f, $prefix . basename($f) . '/'));
        } else {
            $result[] = $prefix . basename($f);
        }
    }

    return $result;
}

$files = recursiveDirList($path);
foreach ($files as $filename) {

    $file_content = file($path . '/' . $filename);
    foreach ($file_content as $line) {
        foreach($contents_list as $content) {
            if(strpos($line, $content) !== false) {
                echo $line . '\n';
            }
        }
    }
}


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8032312/find-specific-text-in-multiple-txt-files-in-php?rq=1


$path_to_check = '';
$needle = 'match';

foreach(glob($path_to_check.'*.txt') as $filename)
{
  foreach(file($filename) as $fli=>$fl)
  {
    if(strpos($fl, $needle)!==false)
    {
      echo $filename.' on line '.($fli+1).': '.$fl;
    }
  }
}


$search_pattern = "text to find";
$output = array();
$result = exec("/path/to/grep -l " . escapeshellarg($search_pattern) . " /path/to/directory/*", $output);

print_r($output);


<?php
    $dir    = '/tmp';
    $files = scandir($dir);
    print_r($files);
?>



<?php
function rsearch($folder, $pattern) {
    $dir = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($folder);
    $ite = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($dir);
    $files = new RegexIterator($ite, $pattern, RegexIterator::GET_MATCH);
    $fileList = array();
    foreach($files as $file) {
        $fileList = array_merge($fileList, $file);
    }
    return $fileList;
}