grep -r '/path/to/somewhere/' -e 'pattern'# Basic syntax using find..exec:
find /top/dir -mindepth int -maxdepth int -type f -exec grep -H 'string' {} ;
# Note, this might look a bit scary, but it's worth learning
# Where:
# - find searches recursively through all directories in the /top/directory
# - -mindepth and maxdepth set the depth of subdirectories to search
# - -type f indicates that only files should be considered
# - all files found using the above criteria are iteratively passed to exec
# via the curly braces. exec then runs grep which searches for the word
# 'string' in the file
# - -H tells grep to return the filename along with the matching line
# Basic syntax using find and xargs:
find /top/dir -mindepth int -maxdepth int -type f | xargs grep -H 'string'
# Note, more recently I've been using xargs which is faster and uses syntax
# that is, IMO easier to remember than exec