Find text within files

May 1st, 2008
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Stuck trying to find text within files on Linux?

cd /directory_tree_you_want_to_search
find . -type f -exec grep -l "string to find" {} \; -print

Easy!

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2 Responses to “Find text within files”

  1. TonyNo Gravatar Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 21:06

    grep -lir ’some text’ *

  2. KieranNo Gravatar Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 21:09

    Almost as good, but I found it freaked out with symbolic links occasionally.

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