> grep "the_search" ~/.bash_history --Don't forget the -i flag if you need case insensitive search.
// Using backslash and asterisk (\*) at the end will search for all files that start with your search term (in this case "readme"). So you would also be able to find "readme2" etc. find . -name readme\*
# this will search all subdirectories for your text (no case sensitivity) # it also prints the line number of the text in file grep -inR "your text" .
