On Monday 27 November 2006 15:54, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 10:34pm on Monday, November 27, 2006 (UK time), eng.waleed scrawled: > > How can I find the files which containing a particular string in > > directory and all subdirectory > > grep -r string directory/* > > Steve find <dir> -exec grep -l "string" \; i.e. find . -exec -l "My String" \; -- will find all files with the string 'My String' (doesn't match the quotes) starting at the current dir (.) and below The -l for grep says only print the filename
