Find words in many files

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Published on 2010-04-23T05:22:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 5:24 UTC
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Hello,

I am looking for this struct messages_sdd_t and I need to search through a lot of *.c files to find it. However, I can't seen to find a match as I want to exclude all the words 'struct' and 'messages_sdd_t'. As I want to search on this only 'struct messages_sdd_t' The reason for this is, as struct is used many times and I keep getting pages or search results.

I have been doing this without success:

find . -type f -name '*.c' | xargs grep 'struct messages_sdd_t'

and this

find . -type f -name '*.c' | xargs egrep -w 'struct|messages_sdd_t'

Many thanks for any suggestions,

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