grep
Search for a file (based on content/string) recursively and return the file name AND the line of text that contains the string
grep -H -r “string to search for” /
- “-H” means to return the file name instead of the line of text
- “-r” means to search recursively
- “/” is the begining point to search from of “root”
This would give you an output similair to:
filename.txt: string to search for
*******
*******
If you ONLY want the file name you will have to integrate the “cut” command as follows
grep -H -r “string to search for” / | cut -d: -f1
