Title: Looking for grep command
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Looking for grep command

 *  [uppaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uppaway/)
 * (@uppaway)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-grep-command/)
 * Our site has been hacked into and our host said to look for a “grep command” 
   that recursively goes through all files and finds a specific line of code and
   deletes that line.
 * Does anyone know about this?
 * Thank you for helping,
    Jessie

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-grep-command/#post-1112559)
 * Grep is a Unix/Linux term for a tool that can search for a specific word or phrase
   across multiple files.
 * [TextPad](http://textpad.com/) – a Windows text editor – has a similar tool (
   Find In Files) that allows you to search, and replace, phrases across all files
   in a directory and its sub-directories. Whatever you do end up using, just ensure
   that it is a **text editor** and **not** a word processor (such as Word).
 * You may also want to check out Post 5 in [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083)
   for a checklist of things to do after a hack.
 * Good luck.

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