Tip #147 Find and Grep
Find all files with given name (you can use Bash expansion if you'd like), and Grep for a phrase:find . -name-exec grep "phrase" {} \;
To display the filename that contained a match, use -print:
find . -name-exec grep "phrase" {} \; -print
Or, use Grep options to print the filename and line number for each match:
find . -name-exec grep -Hn "phrase" {} \;
The string `{}` is replaced by the current filename being processed everywhere it occurs in the arguments to the command. See the `find` man page for more information.
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