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# 1  
Old 12-23-2008
find for specific content in file in the directory and list only file names
Hi,

I am trying to find the content of file using grep and find command and list only the file names

but i am getting entire file list of files in the directory

find . -exec grep "test" {} \; -ls

Can anyone of you correct this
# 2  
Old 12-23-2008
Code:
find . -type f -exec grep -l "test" {} /dev/null \;

or
Code:
find . -type f | xargs grep -l "test"

# 3  
Old 12-23-2008
Both commands are working fine. Thanks
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