Compete noob question....

I need a script to search through a directory and find files containing text string abcde1234 for example and then copy that file with that text string to another directory

help please

this will list all files in the given directory that contain the given string:

find /path/to/dir/ * | xargs grep abcde1234 | cut -d ":" -f1 | uniq

Thanks, have knocked this script up, what do you think

#!/bin/bash
files="$(find /opt/efx/ian/original | xargs grep abcdef123 | cut -d ":" -f1 | uniq)"
echo $files
for X in $files
do
cp $X /opt/efx/ian/copied
done

egrep -l 'abcde1234' * | while read mFile
do
  cp ${mFile} /opt/efx/ian/copied
done

alternatively u can do like this

find /opt/efx/ian/original  -name '*' -exec grep -l "abcde1234" {} \; -exec cp {} /opt/efx/ian/copied \;

what type of files will this work on ? I have a need for this script to find terms in documents such as word and excel spreadsheets.

if u want to input in each time what the script to find u???
what do u change??