How to grep for the whole word

Question

I am using the following command to grep stuff in subdirs

find . | xargs grep -s \'s:text\'

However, this also finds stuff like

Answer 1

If you just want to filter out the remainder text part, you can do this.

xargs grep -s 's:text '

This should find only s:text instances with a space after the last t. If you need to find s:text instances that only have a name element, either pipe your results to another grep expression, or use regex to filter only the elements you need.