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Looking for a string in files and reporting matches

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

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gzgrep

GZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GZGREP(1)

NAME

       gzgrep, gzegrep, gzfgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       gzgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       gzgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is speci-
       fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed	if  necessary  and
       fed to grep.

       If  gzgrep  is  invoked as gzegrep or gzfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep.  If the GREP environment variable is set, gzgrep
       uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example:

	   for sh:  GREP=fgrep	gzgrep string files
	   for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; gzgrep string files)

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), gzdiff(1), gzmore(1), gznew(1), gzforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1)

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgzip	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | External	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for gzip is available in the SUNWgzipS package.

																	 GZGREP(1)