Finding a String with a Recursive Grep

If you need to find a specific string in all files of a particular type in the current directory and all directories beneath it, you can use a command similar to the following:

find . -name "*.php" -exec grep "noindex" {} /dev/null \;

In this case I want to find all of the PHP files where I have included the string "noindex" in a META tag.

References:

1. Greg Hinkel's UNIX Tip of the Week for March 3, 1996

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