Re: [ALUG] Search all text files for a text string

On 30/06/2016 13:22, Laurie Brown wrote:

find [dir] -type f | xargs grep -i "string"

Also: find [dir] -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i "string" This delimits names with ASCII null, so can handle filenames with embedded spaces, newlines and other weirdness. -- Red to red, black to black, switch it on, but stand well back.