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

["Andrew Gwozdziewycz" <apgwoz@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Dan Widyono <dan@widyono.net> wrote:

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

Or with only one tool, grep -rl <string> /path/to/top/directory

Or.. using xargs to avoid the crazy syntax of using -exec

find <directory> | xargs grep <string>

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