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The grep command can be used to
# find files that contain a specific string of text
# "filter" text in a pipeline to only lines matching (or only lines not matching) a specific string of text

To search a single file for the string "password"
<code>
grep "password" file.txt
</code>
This will print a list of lines that contain the word password.

To search all files ending in .txt for the string "password"
<code>
grep "password" *.txt
</code>
This will print a list of lines that contain the word "password", but it will also show the file name that the line was found in.

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