[Cialug] Find Files with String

[Paul Gray]

Todd Walton 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.

grep --exclude-dir=/proc --exclude-dir=/sys --exclude-dir=/dev -D skip -d 
recurse 'text-in-file' /

More robust examples (with find and/or xargs) are bound to follow.  But do you 
want robustness, or a one-liner?
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