Iterate through directories and search into files

[Steve Bertrand]

Mel wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2008 14:22:27 Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> Steve Bertrand wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I have a list of directories:
>>>
>>> - a..z and 2003..2008
>>>
>>> ...inside of a single directory.
>>>
>>> Can someone advise what the shortest shell pipeline would be to search
>>> for two words (on two separate lines) within all files located only the
>>> alpha directories, and then print the filename to STDOUT?
>> ...what I meant to say was that both patterns will be on the SAME line,
>> as a single instance example, I would do:
>>
>> cat a/file.fil | grep -i comment | grep 355
> 
> find ./[a-z]* -type f -exec grep -il 'comment.*355' {} +

Beautiful, thanks!

Steve