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To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
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Subject: Re: finding files containing specific text
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> 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'?

  $ find ~ -type f | xargs grep -l starfish

Lucas


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