[Cialug] Find Files with String

Sarkhan Elkhanzade sarxan at elxanzade.com
Fri Dec 11 10:46:46 CST 2009


Try 'man strings'. Probably it's exact command that you looking for.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a bash one liner to find all text files that have a
> certain string in them and print the names?
>
> I've been playing around with 'for-do-done', but I'm wondering now if
> maybe 'find' might be better.
>
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> Todd
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