Find in files list of values

Question

I have a list of values, and I need find each value one by one in a folder (and its sub-folders) with files, and then save the results (list of files for each entry). Is there any tools to do this? Windows is preferred, but Linux is ok too.

Answer 1

grep -l value folder folder/* > results_for_value.txt

or, if "sub-folders" means to any depth

find folder -exec grep -l value {} \; > results_for_value.txt

but perhaps you want to read the man page for locate

locate value …