Searching contents of files

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

jason dictos wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>   I've always used grep text /*/*/* to recursivly search directories for 
>files with the specified text string in them, however this method doesn't 
>always work very well (sometimes it bails out halfway through with error 
>"Argument list too long"). 
>
>Is there a more effective way to search the contents of files?
>
>Thanks,
>-Jason
>  
>

$grep -r text *

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.