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Suppose that I have a directory with name _file and includes two sub directory like _1 and _2 and on each one I have some text files. I want to search a word like foo in one of these text files. How I can do that?
I want to know which text files in the whole directory contain that word?


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  1. Open a terminal.

  2. Install ack-grep by typing sudo apt-get install ack-grep

  3. Change to the directory you want to search under, and type ack-grep foo. it lists out all the matches in all files under that directory.


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