[clue-tech] recursive grep

[David L. Willson]

Does anyone have a good idea for "find absolutely every file in haystack/, that mentions needle"? 

"grep -R needle /etc/*" and "grep -R needle /var/*"seem to run forever. 

I think it's a "find /etc -xtype f -exec grep ... something, but I can't think of the right something. 

David L. Willson 
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