find and searching for specific expression in files

[郑天宇]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:25:12AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can you please give me a hint how to use find to search for a specific
> text within files?

If you just want the filenames which contain the string you are
searching for, use the "-l" argument to tell grep to print out the
filenames.

For example:

grep -rl "string" .

will print out all the filenames containning "string".


> 
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> Zbigniew Szalbot
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                                                     郑天宇
                                                        2009年05月31日
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