How to find a file that contains the specified string in FreeBSD?

Question

I'm searching for the way to find a file that contains specified string text.

It should be fast as possible but its not that important.

I was reading the manual, and I've build something like that: grep my_string * -r and it works at all, but if there are many directories to search.

Are there any other ways to find a file that contains specified string in FreeBSD?

Solution

Did you mean:

grep -rl my_search_pattern    my_dir1 my_dir2 my_dir3 my_another_file

Comments

[Fox]

there aren't many ways that could make searching for string faster, than grep. and if you want to search multiple directories, just list them ... grep -r string dir1 dir2 dir3, or just grep the string on the whole drive grep -r string / (this could take a long time though and i'm not sure if freebsd grep will dig into devices by default)

[Cyclone]

@RoyceWilliams Good point!