Search for a text within files in a directory

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I need to search for a particular string. This string might be present in many files. The directory in which I am present has more than one subdirectories. Hence, the search should check in all the subdirectories and all the corresponding files and give a list of files which have the particular string.How is this possible in unix?

eg: Directory structure---> abc/cde/xyz

Files present:abc/cde/bat.ksh
abc/cde/xyz/cat.ksh
abc/dog.ksh

File contents:
abc/cde/bat.ksh
bat call far

abc/cde/xyz/cat.ksh
cat call next

abc/dog.ksh
dog fall first

If the string 'call' is searched, the outputs should be abc/cde/bat.ksh, abc/cde/xyz/cat.ksh.

Urgent help required, please...Any input..highly appreciated.

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Try this...

find . -type f -exec grep -l 'call' {} \;
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Thanks for your assistance..but, its not working..any other way to display the details?

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grep -rl  call *

Man grep

 -R, -r, --recursive
          Read all files under each directory, recursively; this is equiv-
          alent to the -d recurse option.

 -l, --files-with-matches
          Suppress normal output; instead print the  name  of  each  input
          file  from  which  output would normally have been printed.  The
          scanning will stop on the first match.
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How is this not working? What results do you get?

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Apologise.....My session was getting hung when i tried running this cmd. Some problem with the server. Looks like its working fine. Just to add:
The command
find . -type f -exec grep -li 'accruals' {} \;
works in such a way that the case is also ignored.

thanks for all your help......