find, xargs, gep -- multiple words in files

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Hey there,

bruce wrote:
 
> right,  but I'm looking to find 'both' words. using find  xargs,
> grep.  I think I may have found a soln.
>
> But, if u have one, I'm interested in seeing it.

My mistake for wording the description badly. Either of those
commands will find all lines containing any of the search terms.

Also, I noticed that Nils' suggestion specified the directory the way
your original example did and that you had used the -i switch in your
example command, so I modified my two to do both of those:

grep -rEi "foo|bar|baz" /foo/projects
grep -rei "foo" -e "bar" -e "baz" /foo/projects

Note that either of those will check all files even though *.* isn't
specified.

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