Is there an FTP client (GUI) that will let me search for text inside files?

Question

I've inherited a huge joomla website (hundreds of nested folders and thousands of files.) I need to be able to find a specific piece of code, but have no idea which file it's in. Is there a GUI FTP client that has an integrated grep-type function?

Answer 1

• You can use nautilus to connect to the server.
• Goto Places → Connect to server → ftp
  
• After connecting to it,you can see it in your nautilus.
• You can search it like any other filesystem you can access.

Answer 2

you can mount the ftp resource as a local

curlftpfs [user@]host:[dir] mountpoint [options]

and search with your favorite tools

Answer 3

Like karthick87 wrote, I generally use Nautilus to mount all my network shares. I have the nautilus-open-terminal package installed, which allows me to right click the window and open a terminal. To search for text, I just open a local terminal from Nautilus and run

grep -r '#include <example.h>' *

Answer 4

Any way of full-text search via pure FTP would involve first downloading applicable files as whole, then browsing through them. So be simple: create local mirror of FTP and search through it. All tools described before do the same, but implicitly.

Answer 5

I think the question was sort of missed. It boils down to this. FTP only transfers files. If all you have is FTP access you will need to download all the files and search them with your favorite search tool.