How can I use grep to find a word inside a folder?

Question

In Windows, I would have done a search for finding a word inside a folder. Similarly, I want to know if a specific word occurs inside a directory containing many sub-directo

Answer 1

Another option that I like to use:

find folder_name -type f -exec grep your_text  {} \;

-type f returns you only files and not folders

-exec and {} runs the grep on the files that were found in the search (the exact syntax is "-exec command {}").