You can use the grep
command to find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux. The grep
command is a powerful tool for searching for patterns within files.
The basic syntax of the grep
command is as follows:
grep "search_string" file_path
To search for a specific string in all files within a directory and its subdirectories, you can use the following command:
grep -r "search_string" /path/to/directory
The -r
option tells grep
to search recursively through all subdirectories.
For example, if you wanted to find all files containing the string "example" in the /home/user/documents
directory and its subdirectories, you would use the following command:
grep -r "example" /home/user/documents
This would search for the string "example" in all files within the /home/user/documents
directory and its subdirectories, and display the file name and the line(s) where the string is found.
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