tony.chamberlain at 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. -- Bowie