I've come to use the following command so often that I've written a script for it in my ~/bin - 'narrow': #!/bin/bash xargs -n 1 grep -l "$@" This tak

I've come to use the following command so often that I've written a script for it in my ~/bin - 'narrow': #!/bin/bash xargs -n 1 grep -l "$@" This takes a list of files on stdin, then greps for the argument in all the files and spits out the matching files. The perk is that it can be chained: find *.txt | narrow dog | narrow cat | narrow rabbit This will find all the files that contain dog, cat, and rabbit.