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How to Find a Specific String or Word in Files and Directories

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Aaron Kili
Dec 7, 2017

Tecmint: Do you want to find all files that contain a particular word or string of text on your entire Linux system or a given directory. This article will guide you on how to do that, you will learn how to recursively dig through directories to find and list all files that contain a given string of text.
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