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To find files containing some specific text using Midnight Commander, start the app and press the following sequence on the keyboard:įill in the "File name:" section. Unlike find or grep, mc is not included by default in all Linux distros I've tried. Midnight CommanderĪnother method I often use is Midnight Commander (mc), the console file manager app. -l stands for "show the file name, not the result itself".Īs you can see, this method is less flexible than the find command.-R stands for recursive file processing.First of all, you can use only the grep tool. There are alternatives to the methods described above. If the text is found in the file, its name will be added to the output, thanks to the -l option. The -exec option calls the grep tool for each of the matching files to check their contents. type f -exec grep -l "text to find" \ XFCE4 terminal is my personal preference.įind. To find files containing specific text in Linux, do the following. Also, I find Catfish not useful and prefer classic console tools over it. However, when it comes to the terminal, you cannot use any graphical tool. You need to click on the gear icon and enable the option Search File Contents. To bypass this limitation when working in a GUI session, you can use Сatfish. Сatfish is a popular search tool. However, none of the file managers I've tried allow searching for file contents. In my favorite XFCE desktop environment, the Thunar file manager allows searching for files by typing the file name directly in the file list. If you can use the GUI, searching for files is not a problem.