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[ubuntu] Search only text files with 'find' command?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I've been using this to search an entire directory recursively for a specific phrase in my code (html, css, php, javascript, etc.): Code: find dir_name -type f -exec grep -l "phrase" {} \; The problem is that it searches ALL files in the directory 'dir_name', even binary ones such as large JPEG images. With a directory also containing large number of images dispersed everywhere, it dramatically reduces the efficiency. Sometimes it takes very long to get a response. Is there any parameter I can easily use to make it only search text files? (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 09/08/2012

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I've been using this to search an entire directory recursively for a specific phrase in my code (html, css, php, javascript, etc.):

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What I've done so far only prints out the line, but I haven't been able to display in which file the phrase appears.

Code: find .

I have a directory with 1,242,276 plain text files on my external hard drive. They are totally unorganized with meaningless numbers as their file names. The reason for that is because they were recovered by some recovery software after accidentally emptying a partition a while ago.

I am now under that directory and want to search for a word "polyhedron" among the content of all the files.

I've found out this is not as easy as I thought at first:on the other OS we know,all text files end with the .txt extension,which makes searching for them quite straightforward-no such thing on Linux,so how can I search for text files in a directory where they may be (and actually are) intermixed with all kinds of other files ?

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I tried using find .

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