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Find files having a specific keyword

While you are using LINUX as a development server you will might come across in such a situation and alter or modify files which has a specific keyword. In such situation you can use the below commands to find out the files which has a specific word or keyword.

 # find / -name \*.cpp -exec grep -q "variable_name" '{}' \; -print

 # find / -name \*.cpp -print -exec grep -q "variable_name" '{}' \;

The above code will search for the keyword called variable in all files with cpp extension.

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