Find and list files containing a string

bash, ,

Recursively search all files matching a regexp in the current directory and then listing them.

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find . -type f -name "*.file" | xargs grep -l "STRING"

This could also be done like this:

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find . -type f -name "*.file" --exec grep -l "STRING" {} \;