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<p>If you are looking for a simple solution to search through the files in a given directory for a string .</p>
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This is done using find & grep.
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find [directory : ex: / . /home/user]  "*.fileex" -exec grep "string or pattern" {} \;
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Example :<br>
find . -name "*" -exec grep "PageFaultException" {} \;
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The above command will search All files in the given directory for the string PageFaultException in it.</p>
but this wont print the file name in which the pattern/string is found. 
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Now just add /dev/null before the \; & now filenames are displayed.
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Example : <br>find . -name "*" -exec grep "PageFaultException" {} /dev/null \;
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HTH<br>
sai