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at March 18, 2008 09:01 by arunpjohny
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grep -lir "text to find" *
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http://smart-pad.blogspot.com/2006/11/linux-find-files-containing-text.html
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The -l switch outputs only the names of files in which the text occurs (instead of each line containing the text), the -i switch ignores the case, and the -r descends into subdirectories.
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Find files that contain a text string
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linux
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