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Subject: Re: Grep Guru
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> I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ and 
> down. It does anything exept searching in files and reporting them.
> Is there a Grep Guru who can hint me out? Thanks,

find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep <grepoptions> <text to search>

anyway it's nothing about being Grep Guru, or Find Guru

but it's really worth to be Man Guru :)

man find
man xargs