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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by psutor on Sunday June 09, 2013 @05:00PM (#5850581)
How about

  grep -irn <identifier> .
?

-r recurses and since it is multiple files implies -H.

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Re:ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search by mwfunk on Monday June 10, 2013 @06:08PM (#5857674)
Yep, that's much nicer. :) I always forget about recursive grep.
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