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Old 02-23-2012, 06:02 PM   #1
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Search files with a special word

Hi, I want to search all the files *.txt in the directory /home to find files that contains the word "tag" like xytag or Tag123 or /tAg. Regards
 
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Code:
grep -i tag /home/*.txt
If you want it to be a recursive search (including .txt files inside subdirectories), you can use find:

Code:
find /home/ -iname "*.txt" | xargs grep -i tag
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