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		goodevans on June 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet? Find all .txt files containing the word 'foo': find ./ -mount -type f -name "*.txt" -exec grep -iHn 'foo' {} \; (the -mount stops it traversing into mounted shares)

pmoriarty on June 30, 2022 [–]

With zsh:

  grep -iHn 'foo' **/*.txt(.)

Though I'm not sure how to prevent zsh from descending in to other filesystems, as you can with find.

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