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Old 03-13-2011
word search in multiple directories

need a Command in UNIX which can find out a word from files in multiple directories

e.g.

/home contains multiple directories


/home/d1
/home/d2
.
.
.
.

/home/dn

under d1,d2...dn contains multiple files. I need to search a specific word in a files under these multiple directories.

Please help me out!!! its very urgent Smilie...Thanks
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Old 03-13-2011
This locates files with a specific word in the file

Code:
SRCH="word"
find /home/d* -type f  -exec grep -l $SRCH {}  \;

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