How to use unix “grep” command to find text including subdirectories



grep -rl "string" /path


-r (or --recursive) option is used to traverse also all sub-directories of /path, whereas
-l (or --files-with-matches) option is used to only print filenames of matching files, and not the matching lines (this could also improve the speed, given that grep stop reading a file at first match with this option).

Example
grep -rl "TextString" /home/Dir1