I am trying to find the text 'db2inst1' in files of a directory and it's subdirectories but the following works on a linux server but not on AIX 5.2 server:

grep -r -i db2inst1 /home/db2inst1/sqllib

What can be the problem or what would work on AIX 5.2 ?

Thanks.

Shoudn't this belong more appropriately to a UNIX group?

Try find . -type f -print 2>/dev/null |xargs grep db2inst1