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Asked: 2018-05-25 01:00:55 +0800 CST

What command can you use to quickly find which file on your home folder containing the umask command? [duplicate]

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What command can you use to quickly find which file on your home folder containing the umask command?

$ grep -rnw "umask" ~
command-line text-processing umask

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  1. Best Answer

    The pattern in grep is placed in front of the file/path:

    grep [OPTIONS] PATTERN [FILE...]

    To receive just the matching filenames instead of the matches, you should use -l option:

    grep -rlw "umask" ~

    If you want all matches of all files including their line number, you need to use -n instead of -l:

    grep -rnw "umask" ~
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