finding a word from different files in linux

[anvin]

How to find a word from different files in linux ?
Is there any command like (find . / -name *****), that can search files in the system for a particular word in Linux?
Please help.....

[Piyu_86]

How to find a word from different files in linux ?
Is there any command like (find . / -name *****), that can search files in the system for a particular word in Linux?
Please help.....

find . -name <filename> will find the file with name <filename>
however if u want to find word in this file you can use grep with xargs for example

find . -name <filename> | xargs grep <word>

[anvin]

find . -name <filename> will find the file with name <filename>
however if u want to find word in this file you can use grep with xargs for example

find . -name <filename> | xargs grep <word>

thank you for the quick reply.
i wanted to know if there is any command that could find the word (Eg.CAT) in my system, by listing th name of the files. I tried the Places->Search for files Option. But this is too slow. I am using Fedora 14.

[Piyu_86]

your question is not clear to me can u give example
what exactly you want

[Piyu_86]

i guess u want the name of the files which have the word "CAT" in it
u can do that using grep

grep -iRn "CAT" *

for more details on grep you can do check teh man page of grep

[anvin]

i guess u want the name of the files which have the word "CAT" in it
u can do that using grep

grep -iRn "CAT" *

for more details on grep you can do check teh man page of grep

thankyou, this is what i was looking for.