I have an expression that searches within files of a particular type and displays the output. But I would ALSO like it to display the directory for each find occurence. The command below works, but won't give me the directory. find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \;Try find /home -name "*.txt" -exec grep --with-filename searchstring {} \; If that doesn't do it then this surely will find /home -name "*.txt" -exec grep searchstring {} /dev/null \;
Another very useful idiom is: find /home -name "*.txt" | xargs grep searchstringThis will probably be a bit faster because grep will be invoked as few times as possible (probably once), saving the overhead of all those execs.
find /home -name "*.txt" | xargs grep -l searchstring will only report the names of the matching files.An obscure case: if files and directories may contain spaces, you would need to do:
find /home -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 grep searchstring Kevin Murphy