On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Bo Lynch <blynch at ameliaschools.com> wrote: > On Fri, October 3, 2008 10:00 am, 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 would recommend taking a look at grep. THere are many ways you can use it. One such example is: find . -type f -exec grep -il !* {} \; -exec grep -i !* {} \; -exec echo \; alias it to, say, findword and run: findword <text> It will show the file names as well as the lines that contain the text. Akemi