How to perform full text search?

[volcano]

Hello, I would like to find some keywords from many files in a directory. I once tried "cat * | grep KEYWORD". It works, but it can't tell me the file name in which the keyword is shown. Do you have any better solution or hint for me? Thanks a lot!

 

[tikual]

You should reach this thread from previous posts.

Anyway, try it:

grep KEYWORD *

tikual

 

[volcano]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Your command is much simpler than those I read in the previous posts of this forum. It is enough to suit my need!

 

[aixmurderer]

Or if you only want to list the file(s) it's found in:

grep -l KEYWORD *

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