[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > for (every folder in this directory)
> >       grep -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
> 
> Would "grep -rl [EMAIL PROTECTED] *" do what you want?
> 
> Steven Murdoch.
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In a slightly more convoluted way, but one in which can be applied
easily to any command to give recursive capabilities:

grep -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] `find .`

(Note the direction of the quotes, and also filenames with spaces will
probably mess things up.)

Thanks,

Allan
-- 
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

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