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  3. November 2006

QSH and Grep: searching multiple directories

I have a need to search a directory for any files containing a specific
string (example below)

grep 'abcdef'  /home/t2web/includes/##usr/*.*

This works fine EXCEPT it doesn't search any of the subdirectories (and then
any subdirs under those subdirs, etc.----> DON"T ASK WHY)

Newbie at this and quick search did not show (or at least I didn't see it)
but is there a switch or another parm that I could add so that it would do
the subdirs...

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