There is a very useful command to search for a particular string in file in bash. It will search subdirectories as well and display a full path to the file, containing the string.
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find . -type f -exec grep -Hn “emacs” {} \; 2>/dev/null
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Output:
./anaconda-ks.cfg:56:emacs
./install.log:282:Installing emacs-leim-21.4-24.el5.x86_64
./install.log:592:Installing emacs-common-21.4-24.el5.x86_64
./install.log:781:Installing emacs-21.4-24.el5.x86_64
./install.log:792:Installing emacspeak-23.0-3.el5.noarch
The 2>/dev/null argument will hide annoying errors like grep: line too long.
If you want to limit the depth of subdirectories, use -maxdepth X argument. Where X is >0.
For a search in current directory, grep alone is sufficient:
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grep -Hn “string” *
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