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# 1  
Old 06-08-2010
Find a word from multiple level files on Linux
To find a word from multiple level files:

"find . -type f -exec grep [word2find] {} +" is working on UNIX machines but not working on Linux machine. What is the equivalent command on Linux to find the word from multiple level files?

Input is appreciated.
# 2  
Old 06-09-2010
try this -

find ./ -name "*.*" | xargs grep <word_to_find>

here *.* represents ur file naming pattern. you can replace it with your requiremnt.
# 3  
Old 06-09-2010
maybe you try
find /home -name -exec grep "reg" {} \;
# 4  
Old 06-11-2010
Works on my RHEL and Xubuntu servers...

All three give same results... If there are a large number of files, I use pipe xargs for quicker responses.
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