Suppose I have a folder hierarchy as below:
f1 > f2
f2 > f3
f2 > f4
f4 > f5
I want to find all files in f1 or any of its descendant folder that contain text “I am a match” and copy them into f1’s parent folder (whatever that is).
To accomplish above, run any of following commands from within f1 folder:
i) cp `grep -rl “i am a match” *` ..
ii) grep -rl “i am a match” * | xargs -i cp {} ..