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Find files containing search string

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-l switch output only the names of files in which the text occurs as opposed to each line containing the text
-i switch ignores the case
-r descends into subdirectories

Example:
grep -lir "my search string" /home/account_name/public_html/

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  1. grep -lir "search string" *

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