searching insed(ide) files

[Miguel Mendez]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 13:24:52 +0200
CARTER Anthony <a.carter at cordis.lu> wrote:

Howdy,

> I am looking for a way to search inside a number of text files for a 
> particular string and return the name of the file if found. Any ideas?

man grep

example: grep foo *.c

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