Re: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix)

None of the solutions posted so far are exactly what I would do... How about a simple:

grep -lr yourstring /path/to/your/dir
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-Blake

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Re: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix) by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Mar 28, 2003 at 10:20 UTC
The `-r` option on `grep` is not uniformely supported. It's not in the POSIX standard. The question was about a Unix command; and GNU stands for "GNU is Not Unix". ;-) Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix) by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 28, 2003 at 15:46 UTC
And if you're going to depend on non-standard grep options why not just depend on using zsh and use `grep '\.\.\.\.\.' ./*/.txt` to let the shell do the find for you. (Aside: zsh rules.)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Mar 30, 2003 at 20:23 UTC
Except that you run into trouble if you have to pass more files than will fit on a command line in your system. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix) by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 31, 2003 at 18:52 UTC
Re^5: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Mar 31, 2003 at 21:04 UTC
Re^2: Find file that contains "....." (command in Unix) by Anonymous Monk on Aug 30, 2012 at 12:10 UTC
Thanks....	[reply]