very quick question :)

["Andrew McRobert" <mcrobert@central.murdoch.edu.au>]

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

thanks a lot

Andrew

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