linux find in files code example

Example 1: find text in folder

grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e 'pattern'

Example 2: how to find a file in linux terminal

find /path/to/folder/ -iname *file_name_portion*

Example 3: search for files in linux terminal

find /path/to/folder/ -iname *file_name_portion*

#Example
find / -iname *test*

#Output

/downloads/test_2.txt
/downloads/test_1.csv
/home/ubuntu/first_test.txt

Example 4: find in file linux

grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e 'pattern'

Example 5: linux find file containing text

# syntax 
# find *</path/to/dir> -name '*<file(s)-to-search>' -exec grep '*<string-to-find>' {} /dev/null \;

# example
find 'C:/Users/JacquesK' -name '*.*' -exec grep 'Random text to find' {} /dev/null \;

Example 6: find text in linux file

grep 'word' filename
grep 'word' file1 file2 file3
grep 'string1 string2'  filename
cat otherfile | grep 'something'
command | grep 'something'
command option1 | grep 'data'
grep --color 'data' fileName