I would like to list the files recursively and uniquely that contain the given word.
Example: Checking for word 'check', I normal do is a grep
$ grep check * -R
But as there are many occurrence of this word, I get a lot of output. So I just need to list the filenames that contain the given search word. I guess some trick with find
and xargs
would suffice here, but not sure.
Any ideas?
Best Answer
Use the
-l
or--files-with-matches
option which is documented as follows:So, for you example you can use the following: