On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > does anyone know the syntax of the 'grep' command to check all files on a > machine for a pattern e.g. "lawpc34", I've been trying: > > grep -r / -e lawpc34 -H &> lawpc34.log & > > but that doesn't seem to work Try grep -r lawpc34 / > lawpc34.log &