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Asked: December 30, 20242024-12-30T07:36:37+00:00 2024-12-30T07:36:37+00:00In: Linux

Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux?

How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents?

The following doesn’t work. It seems to display every single file in the system.

find / -type f -exec grep -H 'text-to-find-here' {} \;

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Saralyn · Answer 1 · 2024-12-30T07:39:03+00:00

Do the following:

grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e 'pattern'

Along with these, --exclude, --include, --exclude-dir flags could be used for efficient searching:

This will only search through those files which have .c or .h extensions:
```
grep --include=\*.{c,h} -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"
```
This will exclude searching all the files ending with .o extension:
```
grep --exclude=\*.o -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"
```
For directories it’s possible to exclude one or more directories using the --exclude-dir parameter. For example, this will exclude the dirs dir1/, dir2/ and all of them matching *.dst/:
```
grep --exclude-dir={dir1,dir2,*.dst} -rnw '/path/to/search/' -e "pattern"
```

This works very well for me, to achieve almost the same purpose like yours.