Recursive text search with grep and file patterns

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Published on 2009-05-19T11:38:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 16:58 UTC
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Given this example folder structure:

/folder1/file1.txt
/folder1/file2.djd
/folder2/file3.txt
/folder2/file2.fha

How do I do a recursive text search on all *.txt files with grep from "/"?

("grep -r <pattern> *.txt" fails when run from "/", since there are no .txt files in that folder.)

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