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Originally Posted by feverdream
The more I look at this I can't help but think that I need to enclose part of this in backquotes (`). Just how wrong am I?
Very.

For starters, you're still putting the file path, public_html/, in your search string. They don't belong there! The regex doesn't care where the files are at all.

I don't think you need any of the .* stuff just to check if a file contains "<applet". Unlike shell globbing, grep is quite happy to return partial matches.

So you could just do

Code:
grep "<applet" public_html/*.html public_html/*.htm

...and it will print lines that match from these files. If you want it to just list the matching files instead, 'grep -l'.
 
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