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How to search for text inside files in Linux

Posted Mon, 01/25/2010 - 1:57pm

To search for a text pattern in files in linux, do the following:

find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i 'your pattern'

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grep -ir 'your pattern'

by Anonymous - 04/14/2011 - 6:47am

grep -ir 'your pattern' *

or

find / -type f -exec grep -il 'your pattern' {} \;

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