Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:06:05 -0500
Message-Id: <199703072306.SAA08843@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: sysdev AT mb DOT sympatico DOT ca
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <33203AEB.647E@mb.sympatico.ca> (message from Programming on Fri,
	07 Mar 1997 09:57:31 -0600)
Subject: Re: Search DOS hard drive question


> I want to search all files on the hard 
> drive for a specific character string; 
> in the root directory, and all subdirectories.
> ALL files.  

If you have a version of grep built with DJGPP Version 2
(v2gnu/grep20b.zip), the answer is *really* simple:

	grep "mystring" .../*