I would like to list the files recursively and uniquely that contain the given word. Example: Checking for word 'check', I normal do is a grep$ grep check * -RBut as there are many occurrence of this word, I get a lot of output. So I just need to list the filenames that contain the given search word. I guess some trick with find and xargs would suffice here, but not sure.Any ideas?
List the files containing a particular word in their text
find;grep;file search
Use the -l or --files-with-matches option which is documented as follows:Suppress  normal  output;  instead  print the name of each input file  from which output would normally have  been  printed.   The scanning   will  stop  on  the  first match.  (-l is specified by POSIX.)So, for you example you can use the following:$ grep check * -lR