Question

I want to search recursively for “MY:STRING” string in files whose name contains “20121218” in them, the output should give me the file name and location. Search should look in files under sub-directories as well.

Answer 1

Use find and grep:

find . -type f -name '*20121218*' -exec fgrep -l "MY:STRING" {} \;

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Explanation:

find the command find.

. start looking in the current directory.

-type f only interested in files.

-name filename match against '*20121218*'

-exec execute the following command on the files found.

fgrep fixed string grep.

-l print only filenames that contain a match.

{} the list of matched files from find command.

\; delimiter.

Edit:

$ find . -type f -mtime -18