Unix grep

I am wondering if there is way of simulating the Unix grep command without using recursion.

e.g.

I am trying to search all the files that contain "love" in all the subdirectories in the specified directory.

In unix this would be:

grep $word ${specified_directory}/*

Any help would be greatly appriciated

Thanks

Dave

there is a utility called rgrep - its the same as grep but recursive. try that.