search directory for files with string

ginabrant has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to search thru 1000s of files in a directory for a string OR pattern. Additionally, i need a list of files that contain that string OR pattern. I have used a couple of different routines and have gotten some information, but not the name of the files. any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers, gina

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Re: search directory for files with string by toolic (Bishop) on Apr 25, 2014 at 02:54 UTC
Do you have access to Unix grep? `grep -l string dir/*` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: search directory for files with string by zentara (Cardinal) on Apr 25, 2014 at 07:34 UTC
<toot> If want to visually examine the return list, you might liike Gtk2 Visual Grep</toot> I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re: search directory for files with string by RichardK (Parson) on Apr 25, 2014 at 10:23 UTC
If you want a perl solution File::Find::Rule has a grep method that will search files for a pattern.	[reply]