Finding files containing 'string'

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:31, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > -- 
> I had two suggestions:
> 1. gnome-search-tool
> 2. find ./ -name "*" -exec grep "string" {} /dev/null \;
> 
> Someone suggested even a better command solution than 2. above but I
> can't remember what it is.
> -- 

find . -type f -print0 |xargs -0 grep "string"

should work.

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