Quoting myself:

>   find / -print | xargs grep -H mythfrontend
> 
> or, if you're likely to have filenames containing spaces, even:
> 
>   find / -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H mythfrontend

Thanks to Shawn I've just noticed I missed out an argument to xargs
here. In the GNU xargs you also need something like (say) "-l40", to get
xargs to exec grep once for groups of forty files because the default is
for one file.  *BSD and SysV have different defaults, AFAIR.

James
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