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Old 10-24-2005
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find /folder/path -name "*.html" -or -name "*.xml" | xargs grep ABC

or, if you run into errors due to space characters in the filename:

find /folder/path -name "*.html" -or -name "*.xml" -print0 | xargs -0 grep ABC

man find for more info