Find files

[Kenn Chen]

I would like to find all files which has content of "Hello" word inside the file.

[Wieslaw Krajewski · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try

find / -exec file {} \; | grep text | grep Hello

But should remember that command file not always clasify well files.

Rgds.

[Laurent Paumier]

find / -type f | xargs grep -l Hello

[federico_3]

The best solution could be:
find DIR -type f -exec grep -il "Hello" {} \;

[Laurent Paumier]

Hi federico,

Your command will exec a grep process for every file found. Whenever you can, use the xargs command which will exec the specified process passing it many files at once. One grep in 10000 files is by far more efficient than 10000 greps in one file...