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.