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How to fgrep through subdirectories 1

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raypru

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I need to search, using fgrep, for some text down through sub directories. Can someone provide the syntax.

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To find text in .txt files in the current directory and all sub-directories, try

find . -name \*.txt -exec fgrep text /dev/null {} \; CaKiwi
 
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