Searching a string across all programs in a directory

[Leo9]

Hi All,

I would like to see if there is a way to search for string across all programs in a directory. For example let say there is a directory XYZ which stores all the SAS programs and I want to search weather string 'ABC' is present in any of the of SAS programs in this directory. Is there a way to do it ? Any help is appreciated. 

[Kurt_Bremser]

If your SAS server runs on UNIX, log on to it with ssh, navigate to the directory, and run

grep -i abc *.sas

[Leo9]

Thank you. I should have mentioned this is on Windows. 

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

See this post.
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-SAS-code-for-keywords/m-p/390472#M93671