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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4358- February 15, 2025
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 : Today's Tip Unix Tip #4358- February 15, 2025
 
 
LOOK FOR A STRING 
Sometimes you look for a string
 in files on your directory using
 grep, but you end up getting funny
 characters on your terminal. This
 is really annoyance, since sometimes
 you have to reset your terminal if
 you are using X. What you can do,
 you can grep only those files that in
 text by doing the following command:
 
 grep "hello world" `find ./ -name "*" -print -exec file {} \; |
 grep text | cut -d ':' -f 1`
 
 Sure you have to change the "hello World"
 to the string what you are looking for.
 
 
 
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