I'm trying to search for a text in a directory among all files. Its expected to access the subfolders too. There are folder & files with whitespace characters in their name. I'm using the following command to search.
find . -type f | xargs grep -rls 'my text'
This doesn't access the folder and files with white space characters. Any suggestion on what to change on the command?
That should handle files with whitespace just fine I think (though not newlines) but you can use find -print0 and xargs -0 to be safer.
That being said your current use of the -r argument to grep is pointless since it will only ever be given directories to operate on. And additionally your use of find here is pointless since grep -r does what you want here directly.
Just use grep -rls 'my text' ..