Just as a matter of efficiency...a recursive "grep" to hit every file in the tree is going to take far longer than it needs to. The "find" command knows how to

Just as a matter of efficiency...a recursive "grep" to hit every file in the tree is going to take far longer than it needs to. The "find" command knows how to be selective. Try something like this: find /Applications -name '*.plist' -exec grep SUFeedURL {} +