I have been looking for a command to find text strings within files on my linux box. After much searching I am now using the following command which does the job perfectly.
find /path/to/folder/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l “TEXT YOU WANT TO FIND”
let me know if this is useful or can be improved.
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WOW, cheers Steve, I had been looking for something like this but not found anything that did exactly what I required.
This does the trick.