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The situation is as follows. You want to search recursive for a text pattern inside of each files in the directory /var/www/vhosts. Take e.g. the pattern ‘DataStructure’.

Normally you would think about the find-command and executing another command but grep itself can do the job.

grep -RHl -e ‘DataStructure’ /srv/www/vhosts

This command lists all filenames containing the text ‘DataStructure’