Just a note for myself… as I always forgot the syntax :/

Using grep only

grep -rnlw ‘/path/to/somewhere/’ -e ‘pattern’ 2>/dev/null

grep -rnlw ‘text’ ‘/path/to/somewhere/’ 2>/dev/null

• -r or -R is recursive,
• -n is line number, and
• -w stands for match the whole word.
• -l (lower-case L) can be added to just give the file name of matching files.

Using find

find ‘/path/to/somewhere/’ -type f -exec grep “text” ‘{}’ \; -print