Can someone please help me figure out what the command syntax I need to use is?

Here is what I am wanting to do.

I have hundreds of thousands of files I need to look for a specific search string in.
These files are spread across multiple subdirectories from one main directory.
I would like to find a way to search through all these files, and everytime it sees a file with this specific search string in it, make a note of it in a log file.

So, for instance, I have the directory /files/accounting/
Under /files/accounting, I have LOTS of Microsoft Excel files that I want to search for the specific string "\\cttrut04\dept\" and then everytime it finds a file by that name, dump it to a log file.

I thought about something like:

find /files/accounting/ -name "*xls" | more | grep -i "\\clttrut04\dept" > \log\filelog.txt

This doesnt work. I am not sure how to do a find and then feed each file name it finds to more to search it and then grep it for the search string.

Can anyone help with this?

Thank you,
Brian

find /files/accounting/ -name *.xls -exec grep -i '\\\\clttrut04\\dept' /dev/null {} \;

Maybe change grep -i to grep -i -l to report the filename. This is what I take "make a note of it" to mean.

Where does the output of this go?

Also, why do you have four \\\\'s and two \\'s, when the search string is only \\ and \?


Thanks for your help!!!

output shows on screen. if you want you can redirect them to some file. those extra slashes are for escape, other wise it wouldn't find that string as / has special meaning in unix.