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Discussion on: Root to Linux: Search Files with Grep

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Christina Gorton

There are a lot of different answers to this depending on how much information you have before searching.
If you know what folder the files are in you can use the -r flag like the example in this article.

If you are not sure what folder to search in, I would try some of the commands suggested here: stackoverflow.com/questions/169568...