Find text in directory

Linux users!! This is a simple example of finding a text in the directory. There is this powerful tool called grep

Following are a few use cases:

Searching in a folder you are in

grep -rnw  -e 'word1' 

Searching for two or more words

grep -rnw 'word1|word2'

Searching in a directory or folder

grep -rnw 'word1' ~/folder/

For more options check out the grep help documentaiton grep --help