shell script that searches the file contents in a directory and its subdirectories for a text string given by the user

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Hi,

I want to write a shell script that searches the file contents in a directory and its subdirectories for a text string given by the user. It list all such file names having the given string and the store in a temp file "abc".

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Posted 4-Aug-12 19:54pm

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Sandeep Mewara 5-Aug-12 2:36am

And the issue is?

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-04T21:35:00

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Using the find[^] command combined with grep[^] should do it. It's a long time since I wrote find scripts so I cannot come up with a sample off the top of my head, but it will be something like:

JavaScript

find . -name -exec grep "pattern" {} \;

[edit]
added -name which I think is necessary.
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Posted 4-Aug-12 21:35pm

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Updated 5-Aug-12 1:17am

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Mohibur Rashid 5-Aug-12 10:21am

an example for grep is :
$ grep -r "redeem reward" specific_directory_path

Richard MacCutchan 5-Aug-12 12:48pm

Not when it's part of a find command as above.