3 Oct
2008
3 Oct
'08
2:22 p.m.
tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
I am looking for something similar to the windows SEARCH FILES comman with the option "files containing ..." (that is where I can specify a string and it will find all files containing that string -- not just having the string as part of the name but actually containing it in the text).
Is there some way to do this?
I tend to use a combination of 'find' and 'grep'. It looks something like this:
find . -type f -name '*.txt' | xargs grep 'whatever'
Add the '-l' option to grep if you just want a list of the filenames.
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Bowie