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

[Fred James]

Thanks - that's the one I was looking for.


Chris Cox wrote:

> 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?
>>
> find . -type f | xargs file | grep -i text | cut -f1 -d: | xargs grep 
> "search for this"
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> From: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1237/urm0103h/0103h.htm
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