UNIX Terminal – Grep Directory Recursively

Posted on By David Kittell

Sometimes you really need to find a file that has certain text in it, these commands will help provided you have an idea of the directory or the string

grep -R 'final exam' ~/Documents
# OR
find ~/Documents -type f -exec grep -H 'final exam' {} +
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