Regarding searching a keyword in all files in particular directory in linux

Question

I want to search a word suppose "abcd" in all the files(Including hidden and all possible files) in dir suppose /home/john/? This is what I tried, I am running the below command and its getting stuck for more than 24 hours. command --> find /home/john -type f -exec grep -iH 'abcd' {} \\;

Result something which will show all the files which have this particular word or any file which is have the name as our search word.

Thanks

Answer 1

使用grep递归选项呢？

grep -r abcd /home/john