Find "sentence" or "phrase" or "word"

[mikerh9]

What is the good method to find sentence on my box. What command is faster for this purpose?

Thanks

[dalecosp]

Shell scripting gurus the world around have developed millions of ways to do this. STFW for "find", "grep", "awk", "sed".... etc., etc.

[TowerOfPower]

grep -i -r 'whatyouwanttofind' /dir/where/you/want/to/look