Search for string inside many files
Combine find, its -exec argument and grep to search inside many files recursively and display the file path in results. Here I’m searching inside the directory modules/ for any files with the extension .tf that contain the string “mode =”. $ find modules/ -name "*.tf" -type f -exec grep -H 'mode =' {} \; modules/gitlab-base-ignition/main.tf: mode = 0755 modules/gitlab-base-ignition/main.tf: mode = 0755 modules/gitlab-base-ignition/main.tf: mode = 0755 modules/gitlab-base-ignition/main.tf: mode = 0644 modules/network-ignition/main....