can anyone help with shell script command about searching word with grep command?

aintour · #1 (**permalink**) 10-14-2009

i want to search in the current directory all the files that contain one word for example "hello"

i want to achieve it with the grep command but not with the grep *

danmero · #2 (**permalink**) 10-14-2009

Code:

find . \( -name . -o -prune \) -type f -exec grep -l hello {} \;

aintour · #3 (**permalink**) 10-14-2009

thnx a lot....

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