How to find particular string in multiple files with in the current directory.

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello friends,

Plz suggest the find command,
How to search a string in a paticular string in miltiple files with current dirctory.:slight_smile:
Thanks in advance.
Siva Ranganath Ch

2

What about using just grep?

grep -l string *
3

this finds the name of a file with 'certain string' in it:

find /path/file/directory -exec grep -l  'certain string' {} \;

or

grep -l 'certain string'  *