Org agenda searches  (C-c a <m|s|/ etc) search across  all files listed in org-agenda-files and org-agenda-text-search-extra-files
See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html for some great info on searching
Another option is to use the shell, for example
Find –name ‘*.org’ <documents directory’ | xargs grep <search string>  (see man pages for more details)


From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+subhant=familycareinc.org@gnu.org [mailto:emacs-orgmode-bounces+subhant=familycareinc.org@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Xebar Saram
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 6:59 AM
To: org mode
Subject: [O] searching across all/multiple org files

hi list

im looking for a way to do a simple search (though i could see times where a org headline search would work) across multiple org file. what would be nice is defining a folder before that has org files and search there

any ideas on this anyone?
thx alot in advance

Z

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