On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:49 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi ALL > > which command is used to display all text files inside a particular directory > That depends on what do you mean by 'text files' I would use something like this. find <start_directory> -type f -exec file {} \| grep <some_strings_matching_text_files> \; -print