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How do I get unix to search inside ALL files for a the string “hello”?
I’ve tried the following but it doesn’t work:
sudo grep "hello" | find / -name "*" 2>/dev/null
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thank you.
Maybe this one?
EDIT: the ‘n’ option of course is not needed – it simply displays the line numbers and I find it nice. The ‘r’ option tells grep to perform recursive search within directories.