Finding files containing text

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Thursday, 11 March 2010 Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:00 )

A thing that always bothers me, is finding a text string in a bunch of files. I have tried more than ten different ways of doing just that, but I never remember how...

...until i googled this way;

grep -lir "some text" *

Thanks Carlo!

 

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