In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Lance Hoffmeyer <lanceh@ibm.net> writes:
> > What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
> > documents?
>
> find ~/somedir -iname "*\.htm*" -exec grep -i "some text" {} \; -print
Also look at the 'rgrep' package.
rgrep "some text" /somedir
-Mitch