Howto use find with grep to search into files in unix-like operating systems

Commands to type[]

find . -exec grep -l "tosearch" {} \; 2> /dev/null

find . -name "*.txt" -type f -exec grep -l "tosearch" {} \; 2> /dev/null

Commands to type if you want to ignore the file type[]

grep -r "tosearch"

A simple script[]

You can use the following simple script named grind (grep + find):

#!/usr/bin/env perl
$arg = $ARGV[0];
$typ = $ARGV[1];
if ($typ eq "") {$typ = "*"};
print("\n***************\"$arg\" in files \"$typ\"****************\n");
$txt = "find . -name \"$typ\" -type f -exec grep -l \"$arg\" {} \\; 2> /dev/null";
system("$txt");
print("\n");

Then you can use 'grind name "*.cpp"' to see all files . cpp that contain name. (a few bugs remain in the script)

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