simple approach to finding files that contain two patterns; it's easy to find a file...

diff --git a/scripts/text/grep_two_patterns.sh b/scripts/text/grep_two_patterns.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+folder="$1"; shift
+pat1="$1"; shift
+pat2="$1"; shift
+
+if [ -z "$pat1" -o -z "$pat2" ]; then
+  echo "this script requires a folder and two patterns to search."
+  echo "all files in the folder (and sub-folders) that contain both patterns"
+  echo "will be displayed."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+find "$folder" -type f -exec grep -lZ "$pat1" ';' | xargs -0 grep -l "$pat2"
+