Unix/Linux: Find all files that contain multiple strings/patterns

When using Unix or Linux, if you ever need to find all files that contain multiple strings/patterns, — such as finding all Scala files that contain 'try', 'catch', and 'finally' — this find/awk command seems to do the trick:

find . -type f -name *scala -exec awk 'BEGIN {RS=""; FS="\n"} /try/ && /catch/ && /finally/ {print FILENAME}' {} \;

As shown in the image below, all of the matching filenames are printed out. As Monk says, you’ll thank me later. :)

(I should mention that I got part of the solution from this gnu.org page.)

Update: My File Find utility

For a potentially better solution, see my File Find utility, which lets you search for multiple regex patterns in files.

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Unix/Linux: Find all files that contain multiple strings/patterns