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From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
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Subject: finding files containing specific text
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Hello!

Somewhere in my /home directory there are some files containing 
text 'starfish'.

How can I get a list of all files in the /home directory and its 
subdirectories that contain the text 'starfish'?

Thanks in advance.
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Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?


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