[NTLUG:Discuss] searching text in all files for match

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:42, Fred James wrote:
> My brain is stuck - trying to remember how to search all text files on 
> the machine for matches to a text string.  Any nudges?
> 
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find . -exec grep -l 'text to search for' {} \;

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