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Old 03-23-2006
searching each file in a directory for text
what command can i use to search the files in a directory for a text. the output would list the files containing the text. ive tried this but it is not exactly what im looking to do: find . -name "*.xml" -exec agrep searchstring {} \;
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Old 03-23-2006
Code:
find /some/startpath -type f -name \*.xml | xargs grep -l some_pattern

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Old 03-23-2006
You were almost there, to complete what you had started:

Code:
find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -l searchstring {} /dev/null \;

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