Shell Tricks
by Frank Kim on Aug.26, 2005, under Miscellaneous
To search for all files that contain a certain string use find with the -exec flag. For example:
find . -name "*.haystack" -type f -exec grep -l needle "{}" ";"
grep -l flag tells grep to output only the file name if there is a match.
"{}" is replaced iteratively by the file names found.
";" terminates the command.
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September 15th, 2005 on 4:50 AM
On Bash shells I use a variant of your command:
find . -exec grep -l -s -i ‘string’ {}\;