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Searching contents of a file

Is there a way a command or a combination through which i can check the contents of a all files in a directory and get the return as the file names which contains the partiuclar string.

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Look at:

Code:

man grep

and then:

Code:

cd my_dir
grep -l my_string *

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Code:

find . -type f | xargs grep -l -i "string to search"

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