This is something which I keep needing. For a filename based search,
find /path/to/search -name "*partoffilename*"
For a substring inside the file,
grep -rn /path/to/search -e "substring to look for"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16956810/how-to-find-all-files-containing-specific-text-string-on-linux
first arg is path to search
-r recursive
-n show line numbers
-e pattern
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