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[Kevin Kempter]

On Monday 27 November 2006 15:54, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 10:34pm on Monday, November 27, 2006 (UK time), eng.waleed scrawled:
> > How can I find the files which  containing a particular string in 
> > directory and all subdirectory
>
> grep -r string directory/*
>
> Steve

find <dir> -exec grep -l "string" \;

i.e.

find . -exec -l "My String" \;
-- will find all files with the string 'My String' (doesn't match the quotes) 
starting at the current dir (.) and below

The -l for grep says only print the filename