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What is the command to search all files in your current directory for the word "plasmodium"?

  1. grep plasmodium *

  2. find plasmodium -all

  3. lookup plasmodium *

  4. search plasmodium *
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Explanation

'grep plasmodium ' searches for the pattern 'plasmodium' in all files in the current directory. grep is the standard Unix pattern search tool, '' is the wildcard for all files, and the pattern follows. The other commands (find, lookup, search with those syntaxes) are not correct Unix commands for text searching.

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