Linux Search for a Particular word in a List of files under a directory

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I have a big list of log files in a particular directory    related to my java  Application  under my Linux  Remote Servers    When i do ls on that particular directory it shows a list of files  nearly 100 files    Now in that List of files   i need to find out a particular word   please tell me   how can i do this     The problem is that I cannot open each and every file and search for that word using      Please tell me how can i search for a word in the list of files provided

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also you can try the following   find   -name    java  -exec grep   lt yourword   dev null         It gets all the files with  java extension and searches   yourword  in each file  if it presents  it lists the file    Hope it helps

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You could club find with exec as follows to get the list of the files as well as the occurrence of the word string that you are looking for   find   -exec grep  my word          -print

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grep is made for this   Use grep myword    And check man grep

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You can use this command   grep -rn  string      n for showing line number with the filename r for recursive

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You are looking for grep command   You can read 15 Practical Grep Command Examples In Linux   UNIX for some samples

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use this command grep  your word  searchDirectory   log  Get more on this link  http   www cyberciti biz faq howto-recursively-search-all-files-for-words

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This is a very frequent task in linux  I use grep -rn      all the time to do this  -r for recursive  folder and subfolders  -n so it gives the line numbers  the dot stands for the current directory   grep -rn   lt word or regex gt    lt location gt    do a   man grep    for more options

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