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Search a list of files for some text

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Searches for some text in a list of files. Displays the results with the filename where the snippet was found.

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  1. find -name your_file_matcher -exec grep 'text_to_match' -H {} \;
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  5. find -name *.pom -exec grep 'apache' -H {} \;

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