Re: [PLUG] CLI for "find" text string in an unknown file

[Matt Mossholder <matt@mossholder.com>]

Try this:


find <directory> -exec grep -l <string> {} \;

replace <directory and <string> with appropriate values, and you're off!

     --Matt Mossholder 


----- "Casey Bralla" <MailList@NerdWorld.org> wrote:

> I'm looking for a command line tool that will search through text
> files and 
> find the ones with a specific string.   So far, Google has not helped
> me.   
> Anybody know how to do this?
> 
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