This time, would you help me find a command for searching for a file if I know it's contents? I dont know the file name, just know what it would contain.
grep is your friend. man grep and you will find ways of doing that. if you know the directory where the file may be, say you know its in /usr/home then you can do grep -R "whatever_text_you_know" /usr/home that will search all the files and enter any directories in /usr/home and search the files therein as well and return file_name:text_found regards, mike
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