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Emma
Emma

Reputation: 453

How to search for text files containing a text string on a linux system

I want to collect and move all text files that contain the string “MEDIUM” that are present in my subdirectories on a linux system, to a new folder called MEDIUM_files. I am able to collect all files containing MEDIUM by using 

ls *MEDIUM*

but I only want the text files.

All the files contain MEDIUM, but they also differ in number. For example the file name contain different numbers at the end such as "MEDIUM_30_1.txt" or through "MEDIUM_1850_20.txt"

How can I specify a file type as well as containing a string?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 91

Answers (1)

wilsotc
wilsotc

Reputation: 800

find . -type f | grep MEDIUM | grep '\.txt$' | xargs -I{} mv {} MEDIUM_files

Upvotes: 1

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