Finding text within files on Linux
So at some point in your professional life, you have probably faced the following problem:
I have a bunch of files and I want to quickly find a file that contains a particular text. I don’t want to go through each file individually because that’s lame. Also, I don’t want to use GUI because I aspire to become pro at using Linux commands.
Yeah, yeah we’ve all been there. As a beginner, I struggled a lot with this and even if I found a solution, I won’t be able to recall it the next time when I’d so desperately need it. Well, here it is!