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What is the wildcard function for finding a list of docs to open containing a specific word?

Asked by Roger Thegreat

Trying to find all files containing the word "list" in my documents folder. I tried *list*.* like I would have in Excel or Word, but that does not work. Sorry, I know this is probably a stupid question for those of you who are familiar with this type of system, but I can't figure this one out....

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Aruna Hewapathirane (aruna-hewapathirane) said : 		#1

Please open a terminal in your document directroy

Then run : grep list *.*

Basically what this does is find all the file sin the directory you run grep from that contain the word 'list'.

More info here :https://help.ubuntu.com/community/grep

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