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


 
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Old 10-14-2009
can anyone help with shell script command about searching word with grep command?

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 *
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Old 10-14-2009
Code:
find . \( -name . -o -prune \) -type f -exec grep -l hello {} \;

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Old 10-14-2009
thnx a lot....
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