Tip - how do I find a phrase/word recursivly in a file tree in linux

Published 10 years ago | Submitted by Demon Chung

how do I find a phrase/word recursively in a file tree in Linux? I tried find . -name ./* | grep my_phrase and I tried grep -r "register_long_arrays" *

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