grep

[Robert Shaw]

Question from Len Teifel:
|
| I have a main directory with hundreds of subdirectories, 
| and I want to find a file with a particular string, say "xyz"
| The grep command only works in one directory at a time. Is there
| a way of searching my whole directory structure to find a file
| with a particular string?
| 
try find ~ -name \*xyz\* -print

Or, not quite as nice: ls -R ~ | grep xyz

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