[Linux-disciples] Find all files matching all patterns

[Stephen R Laniel]

If I want to find all the files under dirName that match
string1 and string2 and ... and stringN, I do

grep -irl string1 dirName |xargs -i grep -il string2 '{}' |xargs -i grep -il string3 '{}' |... [more of the same up to stringN]

Is there any better way to do this? I've written a little
Perl script to do it:
http://laniels.org/scripts/matches_all.pl.txt

But I wonder if y'all have a better idea.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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