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Note, you almost never have to use cat. Just leaving it out would have been enough to find your file (although find is still better).
When you want to find a string in a file it's also enough to use
grep string fileinstead ofcat file | grep string. You can even search through multiple files withgrep string file1 file2 file*and grep will tell you in which file the string was found.So I could use something like grep string -R * to find any occurrence of the string in any files in the folder and sub-folders.
thank you!
grep -r string .The flag should go before the pattern.
-rto search recursively,.refers to the current directory.Why use
.instead of*? Because on it's own,*will (typically) not match hidden files. See the last paragraph of the 'Origin' section of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming). Technically yourlscommand (lacking the-a) flag would also skip hidden files, but since your comment mentions finding the string in 'any files,' I figured hidden files should also be covered (thefindcommands listed would also find the hidden files).EDIT: Should have mentioned that
-Ris also recursive, but will follow symlinks, where-rwill ignore them.TIL