Not ideal, probably no good reason to use this when you have grep or perl installed. Poor-mans recursive grep in recursive bash script find + grep $ find -type f -exec grep -IH 'word' ,'.') -H to output filename where match is found.-r for recursive search down from current directory.$ printf 'A-well-a don't you know about the bird? Well, everybody knows that the bird is a word' | grep -noP 'bird' Here, for example, we can use -P in grep to make use of Perl regular expressions to surround it. As you begin searching for files, the results show up instantly there's no need to wait or press Enter. The following image illustrates what my Microsoft Word document looks like after I have edited a guest blog. You can use Everything to search from the Windows right-click context menu and find files across several NTFS drives at once, both internal and external ones. If I had of used a specific style (such as Heading 9), it would be easier to find a specific text string that uses a specific word style. If we're talking about a word as string that could appear in the beginning or end of line, or alone on the line, or surrounded by spaces and/or punctuation - that's when we'll need regular expressions, and especially those that come from Perl. Microsoft Word uses the Normal style in a document for the bulk of the text. One should note,however,that searching for word can get a little complex, because most line-matching tools will try to find a word anywhere on the line. Here's an overview of different methods that one can use for searching files for specific strings of text, with a few options added specifically to work only with text files, and ignore binary/application files.

Search word files for text