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HOWTO: SEARCH FOR ALL FILES CONTAINING CERTAIN KEYWORDS

1. From a terminal, navigate to the directory containing the files of interest.
2. To find all files (including PDFs) containing either keyword1, keyword2 and/or keyword3 (regardless of uppercase/lowercase spellings), use
   
   egrep -ail 'keyword1|keyword2|keyword3' *
   
   
3. Alternatively, to find all file names containing a specific word on the entire system, use
   
   locate keyword1