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[find] Run and understand. Find a string in a file with the find command

created-2025/11/13 updated-2026/03/15

Introduction

This repository runs the find command to search for a string in all files under the current directory and output the path.

Commands that need to be installed

  1. git

Quickstart

If you have already installed the above command, run the following command to download it from the repository, then change the directory and run the find command to output the path of the file that contains the search string (hello).

ubuntu

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
Output results 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt
./example1.txt

macos

MacPorts

source ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias


git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
Output results 
./example1.txt
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

windows

WSL2

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
Output results 
./example1.txt
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

MSYS2 MINGW64

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
Output results 
./example1.txt
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt
./README.md

Procedure

ubuntu

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.

git --version

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the terminal, please install it using the following command.

sudo apt install git

command

By executing the following command, the path of the file containing the search string (hello) should be output as shown in the details.

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
detail 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt
./example1.txt

macos

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.

source ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias


git --version

※MacOS uses the MacPorts package manager to manage commands. If you haven’t installed it yet, please see the MacPorts installation instructions at the link below.

It also allows you to set aliases for commands so that you can call them without conflicting with existing environments.

If you are using this blog for the first time, please refer to the following two articles to set up your environment.

[macos] Steps to install MacPorts
[macos] Setting aliases for commands installed with MacPorts

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the terminal, install it using the following command and set an alias.

sudo port install git


echo 'alias git="/opt/local/bin/git"' >> ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias

COMMAND

By executing the following command, the path of the file containing the search string (hello) should be output as shown in the details.

source ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias


git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
detail 
./example1.txt
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

windows

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the prompt and if command not found does not appear, it’s OK.

WSL2
git --version
MSYS2 MINGW64
git --version

※Windows has been confirmed to work with WSL2 and MSYS2 MINGW64. Please install WSL2 if possible, and if you are unable to set it up, you can run it by installing MSYS2, but there may be some commands that can only be run in WSL2. Please refer to the following article for instructions on how to install WSL2 and MSYS2.

[windows] Steps to install WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
[Windows] Steps to install msys2

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the prompt, please install it using the following command.

WSL2
sudo apt install git
MSYS2 MINGW64
pacman --sync git

command

By executing the following command, the path of the file containing the search string (hello) should be output as shown in the details.

WSL2
git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
detail 
./example1.txt
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt
MSYS2 MINGW64
git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_getSearchedFilePath


cd find_getSearchedFilePath


find . -type f -exec grep -l hello {} +
detail 
./example1.txt
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt
./README.md

Afterword

. is the current directory, f is a file, -exec is a find option that executes the command of the next argument, -l displays only the file path, {} is a string that stores the results of find . -type f, and + is an indicator to run in one process.

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