Searching multiple IFS files

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know this has been discussed at some point.  Not sure as to how it was
resolved.

I am needing to locate files in an IFS directory that contain a given string.

Using qp2term, I entered this:

cd to appropriate directory

for i in `ls *.txt`
do
cat $i |grep string && echo $i
done


Eight file names were displayed.  I have searched one named file and those
around it, but cannot find the string that was (if I did it right) that was
located.

Two questions:

1) Since echo command is only performed when grep is successful, qhy is the
value presented not apparently a file that contains the string located by grep?

2) Any way that I can disable the huge quantity of job logs produced by the
above commands?  Message logging is currently set to 4 0 *NOLIST and *NO

Thanks!