On 4 July 2016 at 15:36, Steve Engledow steve@offend.me.uk wrote:
I likely missed some context by not bothering to read the whole thread, but why not:
grep -rliH "string" [dir]
The only bit you missed was the same suggestion from Mr McDowell, and yes it's the right (and simple) answer that I was missing!
All the other ways to work around it with find were interesting, but grep -rl was definitely the key.