recursively search a certain file for certain text (linux)

By On July 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Have you ever tried to do a recursive linux search for a text string inside a particular file? For example
grep -r "mail" *.php
and then it fails because the current folder doesn’t have any php files in it?

This below line will search all files for the text moo

find . -type f -exec grep -i 'moo' {} \; -print

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