Keep forgetting how to do this, so here it is. How to do a quick and simple, recursive search for text using grep. Hint: It\'s very simple. $ grep -rl \"some text\" . That\'s all there is to it! grep is the command, r makes the search recursive (i.e. in the target folder and all its sub-folders), l means it will list the name of all the files where it finds the text, \"some text\" is the string to search for, and finally, the dot at the end means to start the search in the current directory. And More