In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their > > documents? > > find ~/somedir -iname "*\.htm*" -exec grep -i "some text" {} \; -print
Also look at the 'rgrep' package. rgrep "some text" /somedir -Mitch