Finding file name

Hi,
I use this command "find . -name "*.html" | xargs cat | grep "searchCriteria" " to find string searchCriteria in any file having html as extension.
I get the output searchCriteria if that string is in the file name.. But, what if I want to know the location of html file from which searchCriteria was displayed?
Regards,

The grep command does not need "cat":
find . -iname "*.html" | xargs grep -i "Search Criteria"(match and search is also case insensitive)
I get the output searchCriteria if that string is in the file name.. But, what if I want to know the location of html file from which searchCriteria was displayed?Not sure if I understand you here. Can you give an example?
Edited by: Dude on Jul 1, 2011 1:18 AM

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