On 0, Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You can use either of: > > grep -r "pattern" . > > or > find . -type f | xargs grep "pattern" /dev/null > Thanks for replying. I tried the following solution and works much faster. find <path> -print | xargs -n 500 grep <pattern> Thanks to everyone who replied with a solution! -- Subba Rao subb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/