Xcode – Text search though all .xib files in Xcode

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This seems like such a basic task, but I'm stumped.

How, in Xcode, do you execute a textual search though (the XML contents of) all the .xib files in a project?

For example, all of our .xib files contain this string on the second line: com.apple.InterfaceBuilder3.CocoaTouch.XIB. So I'd think that searching all project files for that string would return all .xib files, but Xcode insists "0 occurrences". I've double checked that the Project Find Options look correct.

I must be missing something obvious. (Or Xcode is somehow hard-coded to skip .xib files.)

I'm trying to find all the .xib files that reference a particular class (and a text search seems like the most direct way).

Thanks!

Best Answer

What I do is run grep in terminal:

grep -i -r --include=*.xib "TextToFindHere" /PathToSearchHere

Xcode doesn't seem to have an option to search xib files and my attempts to get Spotlight to look at them have been unsuccessful.

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