How to search for a string in a selection of files (-exec grep ...). find . -exec grep "searchthisstring" '{}' \; -print

This command will search in the current directory and all sub directories. All files that contain the string will have their path printed to standard output.

Search and Replace in all files within a directory recursively on Linux

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