Finding files containing text

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Written by Henrik, Friday, 12 September 2008 Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 February 2009 19:43 )

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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